Facebook for News Apps: How We Harnessed The Social Network For ‘The Opportunity Gap’

Last week we published The Opportunity Gap [1], a news application that lets readers find out how equally their state provides poor and wealthier schools access to advanced classes that researchers say will help students later in life.

It features a host of technologies we’re using for the first time, and which we anticipate will be part of many of our news apps in the future. These include a new JavaScript-based “workspace” approach to placing, sorting and removing multiple entities on a single page. We also built our own map server, which we’ll have lots to say about later this summer.

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