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Airbnb’s impact on S.F. (2015) | San Francisco Chronicle

An update form the 2014 Chronicle story, web data extraction firm Connotate Inc. created automated scripts to navigate and harvest information on San Francisco listings from the Airbnb website over the course of several hours on May 19. Data extraction firm Import.io likewise harvested data from the HomeAway and FlipKey sites on May 19. Data included hosts, properties, neighborhoods, rates and ratings. Connotate and Import.io removed duplicates and performed other quality assurance measures. Story highlights the top line info we found,including changes from last year, ongoing controversies in SF, why it matters. Anti-AIRBNB and Supervisors meeting June 10th.

Top 100 Restaurants (2015) | San Francisco Chronicle

“The first is Michael Bauer’s 20th annual list of the Top 100 Bay Area restaurants, which was released on SFChronicle.com this week and (was) delivered to subscribers on Sunday. It’s an amazing culmination of two decades of work by Michael. It also required tremendous efforts by editors, photo, design and the digital team, most notably the indefatigable Michael Grant. The great digital and print presentations are a fitting tribute to the quality of the work and to the importance of it to our community. (The printed magazine cover alone went through more than two dozen iterations!) Thank you to everyone who worked on this.”

— Audrey Cooper | Editor-in-chief
San Francisco Chronicle

A Changing Mission | San Francisco Chronicle

The Chronicle spent eight months in the heart of the Mission — 24th Street at Shotwell and Folsom — documenting the changes faced by those who call this neighborhood home. This ambitious web project is a collection of digital assets that come together to tell a very important story. Traditional design with a slight edge make it a successful method of reading for users. See an early version of project navigation here.

Window into AirBNB | San Francisco Chronicle

As described in The Chronicle, “Web data extraction firm Connotate Inc. of New Brunswick, N.J., created automated scripts that harvested information on San Francisco listings from the Airbnb website over the course of several hours on May 19. Data included hosts, properties, neighborhoods, rates and ratings. Connotate then removed duplicates and performed other quality assurance measures. Connotate was not able to determine which listings were available for rent that night. Some may have been available; some may have been already rented via Airbnb and some may not have been offered at that time.” Written by Business reporter Carolyn Said.

Richmond housing | CIR | San Francisco Chronicle | KQED

This story was produced by The Center for Investigative Reporting, a nonprofit, independent newsroom in the Bay Area, in partnership with the San Francisco Chronicle and KQED. The story was edited by Andrew Donohue and Mark Katches, and copy edited by Nikki Frick and Christine Lee.

A decade of homelessness | San Francisco Chronicle

Totally amazing cool interactive before-and-after #napaquake photos. A must click: http://t.co/Aedae0GtM9

— Audrey Cooper (@audreycoopersf) August 25, 2014

#NAPAQUAKE | San Francisco Chronicle

Great coverage deserves a little interactive. I was able to find stills of Napa buildings before the damage using Google Streetview, and place them atop the wonderful visuals our staff shot just after the disaster. The results help tell the degree of damage on select buildings.

Banner Magazine | RipeSeed Media

Banner (or HBCU Banner) is a quarterly, all-digital magazine published by RipeSeedMedia that explores issues in higher education at historically black colleges and universities. Our content is a fresh approach to conversations being had around higher education and the often questioned “future of HBCUs,” delivered on the latest platforms and in the most elegant way achievable. Banner is tablet-focused but is also produced in several formats including iBook, interactive PDF and ePub formats with print editions to come in the near future.