5 Creative uses of DocumentCloud

Since DocumentCloud burst on to the scene in 2009, newsrooms have used the tool to publish, analyze, and annotate documents all of sorts including police reports, government documents, and court records. DocumentCloud can, however, be used for more than just your run-of-the-mill documents and in a variety of creative ways, as evidenced by the examples below.

 

WNYC: NYC Ballot Design

How do you show the public that a ballot for an upcoming election is flawed and hard to use? WNYC found its answer in DocumentCloud and used the site’s annotation tool to highlight flaws in the design of a NYC ballot and how they could be corrected.

 

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