Entries tagged projects in 2018

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Building smaller Python Docker images

Changes are afoot at Zeit Now, my preferred hosting provider for the past year (see previous posts). They have announced Now 2.0, an intriguing new approach to providing auto-scaling immutable deployments. It’s built on top of lambdas, and comes with a whole host of new constraints: code needs to fit into a 5MB bundle for example (though it looks like this restriction will soon be relaxed a little—update November 19th you can now bump this up to 50MB).

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3:13 am / 19th November 2018 / projects, zeitnow, docker, datasette

The interesting ideas in Datasette

Datasette (previously) is my open source tool for exploring and publishing structured data. There are a lot of ideas embedded in Datasette. I realized that I haven’t put many of them into writing.

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2:28 am / 4th October 2018 / projects, sqlite, datasette, bakeddata

Analyzing US Election Russian Facebook Ads

Two interesting data sources have emerged in the past few weeks concerning the Russian impact on the 2016 US elections.

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4:01 pm / 6th August 2018 / politics, projects, yaml, datasette, sqliteutils

Datasette Facets

Datasette 0.22 is out with the most significant new feature I’ve added since the initial release: faceted browse.

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11:42 pm / 20th May 2018 / facets, projects, facetedsearch, datasette

Exploring the UK Register of Members Interests with SQL and Datasette

Ever wondered which UK Members of Parliament get gifted the most helicopter rides? How about which MPs have been given Christmas hampers by the Sultan of Brunei? (David Cameron, William Hague and Michael Howard apparently). Here’s how to dig through the Register of Members Interests using SQL and Datasette.

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3:49 pm / 25th April 2018 / mysociety, politicalhacking, politics, projects, sqlite, xml, datasette

Datasette plugins, and building a clustered map visualization

Datasette now supports plugins!

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3:41 pm / 20th April 2018 / maps, plugins, projects, visualization, datasette, pytest

Analyzing my Twitter followers with Datasette

I decided to do some ad-hoc analsis of my social network on Twitter this afternoon… and since everything is more fun if you bundle it up into a SQLite database and publish it to the internet I performed the analysis using Datasette.

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6:41 am / 28th January 2018 / pandas, projects, sqlite, twitter, datasette