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Weeknotes: git-history, created for a Git scraping workshop

My main project this week was a 90 minute workshop I delivered about Git scraping at Coda.Br 2021, a Brazilian data journalism conference, on Friday. This inspired the creation of a brand new tool, git-history, plus smaller improvements to a range of other projects.

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4:10 am / 15th November 2021 / aws, projects, s3, talks, teaching, datasette, weeknotes, gitscraping, sqliteutils, githistory, s3credentials

Git scraping, the five minute lightning talk

I prepared a lightning talk about Git scraping for the NICAR 2021 data journalism conference. In the talk I explain the idea of running scheduled scrapers in GitHub Actions, show some examples and then live code a new scraper for the CDC’s vaccination data using the GitHub web interface. Here’s the video.

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12:44 am / 5th March 2021 / datajournalism, scraping, talks, githubactions, gitscraping, annotatedtalks, nicar

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