MIT Center for Civic Media

NewsPix

NewsPix is a suite of apps by Matt Carroll, Catherine D'Ignazio and Jay Vachon that drive engagement in local news through pictures and visualizations. Our first app is a browser extension for Chrome and Firefox that delivers breaking news to the new tab window of a desktop user's browser.

Updated Oct 12, 2015

Promise-Tracker-Builder

Web app for developing and tracking civic monitoring campaigns

Updated Oct 12, 2015

DataBasic

Updated Oct 9, 2015

SameDiff

Simple TF-IDF tool for DataBasic.io

Updated Oct 8, 2015

MediaCloud-API-Client

A client for consuming content from the MediaCloud v2 API. Includes examples for adding post-processed meta-data to the stories, and saving them to CouchDB or MongoDB.

Updated Oct 8, 2015

Action-Path-Client

Android app for discovering and tracking status of local infrastructure issues.

Updated Oct 7, 2015

civic-parade

Updated Oct 7, 2015

WTFCSV

Small website to summarize csv data for learners

Updated Oct 5, 2015

Promise-Tracker-Aggregator

Datastore and API for civic monitoring surveys and responses

Updated Sep 30, 2015

Action-Path-Server

Rails server that communicates with the Action Path mobile app.

Updated Sep 30, 2015

Promise-Tracker-Mobile

Mobile data collection client for civic monitoring campaigns

Updated Sep 29, 2015

MediaMeter-Dashboard

Front-end for the MediaCloud database

Updated Sep 8, 2015

MediaMeter-Skeleton

Skeleton Web App using MongoDB, Flask, backbone.js, and bootstrap.js

Updated Sep 8, 2015

MappingPoliceViolence-Scaper

Updated Sep 3, 2015

CLIFF

A lightweight server to allow HTTP requests to the Stanford Named Entity Recognized and a heavily modified CLAVIN geoparser.

Updated Sep 2, 2015

MediaMeter-Sources

Tool for browsing the media sources and sets you can use in the MediaMeter Dashboard

Updated Sep 1, 2015

Word-Counter

A web app to do simple word frequency counting, bigrams and trigrams. Created for use in data visualization and storytelling classrooms.

Updated Aug 26, 2015

Global-Coverage-Study

A small study designed to compare geographic coverage between various types of online news sources

Updated Aug 25, 2015