Aaron Presnail has recently won the Knight News Challenge award, putting in control of a quarter million dollars. What does he plan to do with it?
He also understands that only a handful of news outlets can afford to invest significant resources in the beautiful-yet-intelligible presentation of such data, which is why he plans to use his $243,600 Knight News Challenge award to build an open-source data visualization module targeting community newspapers, independent journalists and bloggers — really, anyone interested in publishing data visualizations.
