Datafreezer

Datafreezer is a newsroom tool that enables reporters and editors to easily share datasets.

Features

Upload

• With each upload, users complete a data dictionary, which describes pertinent fields within a dataset. This ensures that uploaded datasets are well documented.
  • Users can either upload a dataset that already has header information, or they can add and remove data dictionary fields.
• Users can include a URL in which the data was sourced and the app will scrape the page for a headline to save.
• Tag support (with autocomplete)

Browse

• Users can browse datasets by
  • Uploading user
  • Hub (desk)
  • Vertical (section)
  • Tag
  • Source
• The app uses a pluggable JSON endpoint to map email addresses to names and certain slugs to names.
  • This endpoint can be a static JSON or an API.

Credits

Thanks to Glyphicons for Bootstrap glyphs.

Developed by Tyler Davis for The Dallas Morning News.