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by palewire 10y ago
Thanks. The Jupyter Notebook technology is great for us. It's nice that it helps us be transparent, and it's even better that it helps us keep our analysis readable, sharable and organized when it's in development.
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by palewire 10y ago
I work at the LA Times and conducted the data analysis of wages included in this story. We published all the code behind it on GitHub. AMA. https://github.com/datadesk/california-crop-production-wages...
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by palewire 12y ago
We brought buggy code, dozens of open tickets and a motherlode of Cali swag to NICAR 2015. You'll never guess what happened next
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Five Lessons from the California Code Rush(californiacivicdata.org)
4 points by palewire 12y ago|1 comments
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by palewire 12y ago
Hey, thanks for your thoughts. I like the idea of a data specific packaging platform. In our case, we're using the Django and Python system because it's one we're familar with, but I'm open to considering other options a
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by palewire 12y ago
I love dat, and find its broad promise very appealing though I'm not sure exactly how to pull off all the blocking and tackling necessary for our project limited to its framework. In addition to downloading the daily file from the stat
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by palewire 12y ago
I agree that something more generic and less-Django specific has a lot of appeal, I'm just not sure I know exactly how to pull it off. Our experiment in the post is based on our previous packaging experience, which is largely limited t
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by palewire 12y ago
A humble suggestion from your friends at the California Civic Data Coalition
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Package Data Like Software(source.opennews.org)
30 points by palewire 12y ago|9 comments
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by palewire 12y ago
Yes. This is something that could be useful to data journalists, who often have to quickly grip and rip new datasets.
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by palewire 12y ago
It might not be exactly what you're looking for, but check out some of the listings here https://source.opennews.org/en-US/jobs/ or here http://www.newsnerdjobs.com/
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by palewire 14y ago
Today's Los Angeles Times features an investigative report that found wide geographic disparities in how quickly LAFD rescuers deliver aid in response to 911 calls. http://lat.ms/W8mXMy It is accompanied by an interactive map that allows
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Meet Quiet LA: A new open-source base map, and the lessons we learned making it(datadesk.latimes.com)
2 points by palewire 14y ago|1 comments
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How to test pluggable Django apps with Travis CI(datadesk.latimes.com)
4 points by palewire 14y ago|0 comments
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by palewire 14y ago
Stay up to date on this pressing issue by following my pet robot, @questionheds. https://twitter.com/#!/questionheds
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by palewire 14y ago
Thanks for this great information. I'm stuck at the jury duty cattle call this morning but will try to put this into action later.
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by palewire 14y ago
Just a stoopid straight call with Selenium's Python bindings.
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by palewire 14y ago
I'm using Selenium's Firefox driver from inside a Django app. There is Python binding that's slick once you figure out a couple timeout related workarounds that are necessary. Their forums helped me over that hurdle.
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by palewire 14y ago
It does an I love that site but unless I'm mistaken I don't think they grab often enough to track fast moving news events.
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by palewire 14y ago
Ha! If you know a way around them I'd appreciate the tip.
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by palewire 14y ago
I created this site because I think it ought to exist. The shifting homepages of major media sites should be saved so they can be studied. Done right, I believe PastPages could serve as a resource for scholars seeking to study
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Meet PastPages.org, the news homepage archive. (And help keep it alive)(pastpages.org)
27 points by palewire 14y ago|20 comments
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Leaflet recipe: Hover events on features and polygons(palewi.re)
1 points by palewire 15y ago|0 comments
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by palewire 15y ago
That's really interesting. I suspect your system allows quite a bit more flexibility.
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by palewire 15y ago
Any criticism or feedback is appreciated. Thanks.
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Introducing django-bakery, helpers to bake out your site as flat files(datadesk.latimes.com)
12 points by palewire 15y ago|4 comments
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by palewire 15y ago
Thanks for the compliment. We have a small team in the newsroom that does data analysis and web development. You can keep up with all our latest work by following @LATdatadesk on Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/LATdatadesk Our evergreen p
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by palewire 15y ago
I should have mentioned alternatives in my post. Thanks for picking me up. Readthedocs is a great option.
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Hosting Sphinx documentation on GitHub(datadesk.latimes.com)
34 points by palewire 15y ago|7 comments
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Is it kosher to deduct your new iPad from your tax bill?(gizmodo.com)
1 points by palewire 17y ago|1 comments

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