Occasional posts on interactive graphics and web development.

2023

• Things I've learnt in my first year at Datawrapper

2022

• I’m working at Datawrapper now

2021

• Rebuilding elliotbentley.com with shiny new Astro

2019

• Designing a unique dataviz for ‘Women’s Work’
• New year, new look for this site

2018

• oTranscribe is joining MuckRock and DocumentCloud
• oTranscribe needs a new home
• What interactives can do (that articles can’t)

2017

• A better way to structure D3 code (updated with ES6 and D3 v4)
• Designing an algorithmic trading simulator
• The 😃 and 😰 of a successful side project

2016

• Designing an interactive data visualisation, from first sketch to final product
• Forward Ferret, an open source tool for UK election data
• Further lessons from building a live referendum results graphic
• A better way to structure D3 code
• How my JavaScript has changed after two years at the Wall Street Journal

2015

• How Google Accelerated Mobile Pages work: best practices and Google's might
• The HTML5 SpeechSynthesis API is rubbish
• Dynamic promo image meta tags in Labour's 'voting record' app
• Open sourcing The Meta Tag Checker from WSJ
• Rethinking digital maps at The Wall Street Journal
• You should start a meetup group.

2014

• oTranscribe's first birthday
• CrowdTip: Our winning hack at Build The News 2
• My 2014 news app development process
• An alternative take on immersive storytelling
• The world in the palm of your hand: Getting mobile map visualisations right
• My first ever JavaScript library, Progressor.js
• oTranscribe, twelve weeks in

2013

• Introducing oTranscribe
• Trying out Google Glass