for aspiring journalists, i should think a class like this is a godsend--which for those who put the work in, will have at the end of the semester, a potent set

for aspiring journalists, i should think a class like this is a godsend--which for those who put the work in, will have at the end of the semester, a potent set of tools for specific data gathering (e.g., which California city mgr earned the most last year?). Each student forks this repo and builds their own web crawling toolbox. Kudos to the professor who conceived this course and for teaching it.