Entries in Aug, 2018
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The subset of reStructuredText worth committing to memory
reStructuredText is the standard for documentation in the Python world.
[... 1186 words]How to Instantly Publish Data to the Internet with Datasette
I presented a session about Datasette at the PyBay 2018 conference in San Francisco. I talked about the project itself and demonstrated ways of creating and publishing databases using csvs-to-sqlite, Datasette Publish and my new sqlite-utils library.
[... 2043 words]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.
[... 922 words]Analyzing US Election troll tweets with Datasette
FiveThirtyEight published nearly 3 million tweets from accounts associated with the Russian “Internet Research Agency”, based on research by Darren Linvill and Patrick Warren at at Clemson University.
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