12 things I learnt from our developer’s blog about building Ampp3d
A while back Ampp3d’s developer William Turrell posted a long technical look at how we built the site in just eight weeks a long ongoing process of technical refinement over six months and counting. It is essential reading if you…
Some thoughts on straight lines across UK maps
A good little debate on Twitter today about the fidelity of some of the maps Ampp3d have been using. We’ve taken to representing YouGov’s regional survey variations with clearly non-geographic lines drawn across the country, dividing it into several bands….
How we built Ampp3d in eight weeks
This evening I spoke at #ProductTank – a showcase event about product development hosted by the BBC, explaining how Trinity Mirror built Ampp3d in eight weeks. Here’s what I said… Ampp3d is the Mirror’s new data journalism site, which we…
Does Ampp3d have a problem with bias?
At news:rewired I got put on the spot about whether there is a problem with Ampp3d being biased. Here’s what I think… I’m loving editing Ampp3d. It’s harder work than I imagined. And doing data journalism day-in day-out is fascinating…
“The Ampp3d-ification of news”
No, nobody’s coined or used that phrase yet, so I thought I’d start We’re eleven weeks into the experiment that is publishing Ampp3d. I’m enjoying it so far. I think we’ve made some great and entertaining content, and I think…