Tracking the coronavirus outbreak in Louisiana

• Used Google’s “Flourish.Studio” to make six interactive graphics regarding the coronavirus outbreak in Louisiana. Our graphics hub has interactives created by Dan Swenson, our graphics editor, and Kyle Whitfield, our digital editor.

In Drew Brees’ pursuit for Peyton Manning’s record, these 69 players caught TDs from him

• Used Google’s “Flourish.Studio” to create flip cards of all 69 players who’ve caught touchdowns from Drew Brees.

For 12 Saints, hundreds in NFL camps: Small-school road makes for uphill climb: ‘Patience is key’

• Used KnightLab’s “StoryMap” project feature to showcase where all of the small school Saints played college football. Used Google’s “Flourish.Studio” to create four additional interactive graphics summarizing where all of the small school Saints coaches played college football and looking at data of small school players from across the NFL.

Gems from the Gem State: For these 6 Saints, the road to New Orleans began in Idaho

• Used KnightLab’s “StoryMap” project feature to showcase where the Idaho connections to the Saints roster came from. Used Google’s “Flourish.Studio” to create a digital flipbook to serve as an additional interactive graphic as well.

Saints, Jets rack up ‘lots of penalties,’ New Orleans leads league in flags in preseason Week 3

• Used Google’s “Flourish.Studio” to created three interactive pie charts analyzing the different types of penalty flags thrown in the Saints vs. Jets preseason game.

Who’s the fan-favorite to be enshrined next in the Saints Ring of Honor?

• Used Google’s Google Form and embedded into a post asking for nominations. I then used that data for a follow-up story. In that follow-up story, I used Google’s “Flourish.Studio” to create an interactive slideshow of the top 10 vote getters and an interactive bar chart to list all the nominees who received five or more votes.

What’s all the backstory surrounding Will Wade’s suspension? A timeline:

• Used KnightLab’s “Timeline” project feature to recap the events surrounding Will Wade’s suspension.

Grizzly football roster full of Montana natives, highest number of Treasure State players since 2007

• Used KnightLab’s “Story Map” project feature to showcase where all of Montana football’s native sons hailed from.

Cat-Griz Insider Podcast

• Recorded a state-wide Montana-Montana State podcast. Hosted by Kyle Hansen of 406MTSports.
• Episodes:
  • Episode 5: Recapping Cal Poly, saying farewell to Montana
  • Episode 4: (Dalton) Sneed for Speed recap
  • Episode 3: What the hell happened in Western Illinois?
  • Episode 2: Dante Olson comes to play
  • Episode 1: We started a podcast!

Five years later: The final Border War

• Used Atavist to add digital tools to my oral history of the last basketball game between Kansas and Missouri. This story won three collegiate awards and still is the most read sports story in Kansan.com history.

A timeline of Frank Mason III’s award-winning senior season

• Used KnightLab’s “Timeline” project feature to present highlights from Frank Mason III’s senior season. This was part of my portfolio that won an APSE Top 10 in the first Student Contest.

Test your Rio 2016 Olympics knowledge after the first week of action

• Used in-house Washington Post tools to create an interactive quiz about what happened in the first week of the 2016 Olympics.