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Measuring traffic during the Half Moon Bay Pumpkin Festival

This weekend was the 50th annual Half Moon Bay Pumpkin Festival.

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3:41 pm / 19th October 2022 / datajournalism, projects, sqlite, datasette, gitscraping, githistory, datasettelite, halfmoonbay

git-history: a tool for analyzing scraped data collected using Git and SQLite

I described Git scraping last year: a technique for writing scrapers where you periodically snapshot a source of data to a Git repository in order to record changes to that source over time.

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10:32 pm / 7th December 2021 / datajournalism, git, projects, scraping, sqlite, datasette, githistory

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