Michael Keller mhkeller

To give you a sense of what type of work you would be doing, here are some of our past interactive projects on Super PAC spending, mapping the access to abortion clinics, looking deeper into what force-feeding at Guantanamo Bay does to the body and tracking members' of congress statements on gun control, complete with a Twitter bot.

The job would be a good fit for you if you have an interest in telling engaging journalistic stories through new digital ways -- emphasis on good journalism. You'll need a strong sense of the news and a desire to tell it in new ways.

A typical day could have you pitching your own idea, mocking it up and developin

	<!DOCTYPE html>
	<html>
	<head>
	<meta name="viewport" content="initial-scale=1.0, user-scalable=no" />
	<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/>

	<style>
	html, body, #map {
	height: 100%;
	padding: 0;

	#!/usr/bin/env python

	from json import load
	from urllib import urlopen
	from urllib import urlencode

	from pandas import DataFrame

	def treasury(sql):
	url = 'https://box.scraperwiki.com/cc7znvq/47d80ae900e04f2/sql/'

	#!/usr/bin/env Rscript
	library(plyr)
	library(utils)
	library(RJSONIO)
	library(RCurl)

	treasury <- function(sql) {
	url = paste('https://box.scraperwiki.com/cc7znvq/47d80ae900e04f2/sql/?q=', URLencode(sql), sep = '')
	handle <- getCurlHandle()
	body <- getURL(url, curl = handle)

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	function calculateStepDimensions(step_obj){
	// Create cumulative percentage values for each step
	// Because it's easier to declare the percentage in in the config obj
	// But it's easier later on to know each step's pixel start and end values
	var cml_perc = 0
	for (var step in step_obj){
	if (_.has(step_obj, step)){
	var row = step_obj[step];
	var len_pix = Math.round(row.perc * TOTAL_LENGTH);
	cml_perc += row['perc'];

	function makeTextfieldsPlaceholderable(){
	/* Clears textfields from helper text on click */
	var $textfield = $('.placeholder-textfield');

	$textfield.focus(function(srcc){
	if ($(this).val() == $(this)[0].title){
	$(this).removeClass("placeholder-textfield-active");
	$(this).val("");
	}
	});

	var $ = require('jquery'),
	dsv = require('dsv'),
	pi_endpoint = 'https://premium.scraperwiki.com/cc7znvq/47d80ae900e04f2/sql/?q=';

	function convertJSONtoCSV(query){
	fetchJSON(query).done(function(json){
	$download_csv_btn.html('Download .csv')
	// This line does all of the json to csv conversion
	var csv = dsv.csv.format(json);
	console.log(csv)