By: Robert Baskin (Online Director)
Last summer, I interned at Yahoo as Backend Engineer for Yahoo News, which was a fantastic experience. While I was there, Yahoo released a product called YSlow, which is a plug-in for Firebug — the most useful Firefox extension ever created. It analyzes Web pages, tells you why they’re slow and how to make them [...]
By: Robert Baskin (Online Director)
On February 19th, we decided to create the Crime Map. We launched it March 3rd, just 13 days later. This is our story.
We decided to retrieve the crimes data from the Yale Police Department daily crime logs. The next task was how to present the data. We knew we wanted a map, and for a [...]
By: Andrew Mangino (Editor-in-Chief)
Dear YaleDailyNews.com subscribers,
It may only have “Yale” in its title, but the Oldest College Daily has long included comprehensive coverage of New Haven as well. In the spirit of that dual mission, today we launch an interactive crime map for Yale’s campus and the surrounding neighborhoods, with crimes — sortable by type, date or location [...]
