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Trying to end the pandemic a little earlier with VaccinateCA

This week I got involved with the VaccinateCA effort. We are trying to end the pandemic a little earlier, by building the most accurate database possible of vaccination locations and availability in California.

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5:40 am / 28th February 2021 / crowdsourcing, django, patrickmckenzie, datasette, weeknotes, covid19, vaccinateca, personalnews

Crowdsourced document analysis and MP expenses

As you may have heard, the UK government released a fresh batch of MP expenses documents a week ago on Thursday. I spent that week working with a small team at Guardian HQ to prepare for the release. Here’s what we built:

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12:07 pm / 20th December 2009 / crowdsourcing, django, guardian, innodb, memcached, mpsexpenses, mysql, nosql, politics, projects, python, redis

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