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Eater Hack Week Day 3: Data Day!

Dylan, Kelsey, and Casey at work. - Susannah Locke

It's Wednesday of Eater's first ever Hack Week. The sun is out, the jackhammer across the street is pounding away at the pavement, and inside our triangle-shaped fifth floor nightclub/hack space, bottles of water, sweating iced coffee cups, and shiny red Coke cans litter the tables. The time has...

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Eater Hack Week: Day 2

For the second time this week, Eater and Vox Media’s product team crashed a boat-shaped off-site work space in lower Manhattan to turn editorial dreams into Vox product reality. Together, the teams learned about some nitty-gritty design elements (Jason Santa Maria), Sass/CSS (Miriam Nadler and...

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Lessons in leadership from #digitalwomenleaders

The first class of ONA-Poynter Leadership Academy for Women in Digital Media. - Poynter Institute

What motivates you?

It's a simple question. When asked, it might get a long pause and be answered slowly, purposefully, unlike many other workplace questions answered while the other person is still asking. When I considered this question for the first time in my career two weeks ago, I saw how...

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JavaScript at Vox University

Vox University, our internal training and skill sharing initiative, hosted a two-day workshop in the DC offices this week on everyone's favorite language: JavaScript. It was a great session with seven participants, and covered everything from encapsulating Walter White's chemistry lab, to...

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I took a vacation and you should too

Sunset in Boracay - Ted Irvine

It’s harder than ever to create space away from work. The unwritten expectation in this connected world seems to be that you are available wherever you are. Vacations open up an even trickier set of tensions: the pressure of deadlines, not wanting to let your teammates down, or a general fear...

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Choropleth maps made easy

We all build choropleth maps, they're a staple in editorial. To automate this process, our team began a simple CSV-driven mapper application that allows for easy definition of map stylers based on columns of data. The tool uses D3 to render world or US-state maps, and allows for color to be...

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Optimizing RegEx for Emoji

Emoji support was requested for Vox Media's live blogging platforms. In considering an approach for this feature, there were two goals: 1) use GitHub's gemoji gem as an established source of emoji data and graphics, and 2) parse these data ubiquitously into live blogging texts as HTML images....

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