ProPublica Launches Eye on the Bailout

Charles Brian Quinn

1 min read

Apr 15, 2009

Clients

ProPublica Launches Eye on the Bailout

ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.

Yesterday, NPR’s Marketplace aired a segment featuring their “Eye on the Bailout” – a Ruby on Rails application to track the $1.1 trillion taxpayer-funded bailout. Behind this Rails app is a one smart development and investigative team. The app is fully RESTful (allowing developers to pull and syndicate bailout related data in several formats), and it also pulls in feeds from several different news sources.

Highgroove was all too eager to help, but the real credit goes out to the amazing development team, led by Dan Nguyen and Scott Klein.

Read the segment on Marketplace.

Link: Eye on the Bailout

Mark Dalrymple

Reviewer Big Nerd Ranch

MarkD is a long-time Unix and Mac developer, having worked at AOL, Google, and several start-ups over the years. He’s the author of Advanced Mac OS X Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide, over 100 blog posts for Big Nerd Ranch, and an occasional speaker at conferences. Believing in the power of community, he’s a co-founder of CocoaHeads, an international Mac and iPhone meetup, and runs the Pittsburgh PA chapter. In his spare time, he plays orchestral and swing band music.