BNA 2019 Course Review

1. Topics

1.1. Elements of a News App

1.2. Automating the News

1.2.1. Quakebot

1.3. Behind-the-scenes of a major news interactive (Hurricane Maria's Dead)

1.4. Design Thinking

1.5. Sensors, Bots and AI

1.6. Data Viz

1.6.1. Data-driven design

1.6.2. Simple tools for viz

1.6.2.1. Flourish

1.6.2.2. Datawrapper

1.6.3. D3

1.6.3.1. data joins

1.6.3.2. Executions viz tutorail

1.6.3.3. Debugger-driven discovery of D3

1.6.3.4. Mapping in D3

2. Building a static website

2.1. Cloud Services

2.1.1. CDNs and caching (CloudFront)

2.1.2. Automated deployment and cache management

2.1.3. Static web storage and site hosting (S3)

2.1.4. Security through SSL

2.1.5. DNS management (Route 53)

2.2. Version control

2.3. Collaborative Design

2.4. HTML & CSS

2.5. Basic Javascript

2.6. Front-end debugging