Entries tagged guardian in 2009

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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

Why I like Redis

I’ve been getting a lot of useful work done with Redis recently.

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10:58 am / 22nd October 2009 / chriswanstrath, github, guardian, hurl, interactivedevelopment, ipython, leahculver, opensource, performance, python, redis

Hack Day tools for non-developers

We’re about to run our second internal hack day at the Guardian. The first was an enormous amount of fun and the second one looks set to be even more productive.

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2:23 pm / 28th July 2009 / freebase, google, googlemaps, guardian, hackday, mapping, nondevelopers, openstreetmap, pipes, sketchup, tools, yahoopipes, computerliteracy

A few notes on the Guardian Open Platform

This morning we launched the Guardian Open Platform at a well attended event in our new offices in Kings Place. This is one of the main projects I’ve been helping out with since joining the Guardian last year, and it’s fantastic to finally have it out in the open.

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2:28 pm / 10th March 2009 / apis, atom, contentapi, data, datastore, guardian, javascript, journalism, jquery, json, openplatform, python, simonrogers, tomwatson, xml

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