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Entries tagged datajournalism in 2019

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Tracking PG&E outages by scraping to a git repo

PG&E have cut off power to several million people in northern California, supposedly as a precaution against wildfires.

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11:32 pm / 10th October 2019 / datajournalism, projects, scraping, sqlite, datasette, gitscraping, digitalocean, sqliteutils

My JSK Fellowship: Building an open source ecosystem of tools for data journalism

I started a new chapter of my career last week: I began a year long fellowship with the John S. Knight Journalism Fellowships program at Stanford.

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11:29 pm / 10th September 2019 / datajournalism, journalism, opensource, careers, datasette, jsk, personalnews

Generating a commit log for San Francisco’s official list of trees

San Francisco has a neat open data portal (as do an increasingly large number of cities these days). For a few years my favourite file on there has been Street Tree List, a list of all 190,000 trees in the city maintained by the Department of Public Works.

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2:49 pm / 13th March 2019 / csv, datajournalism, git, projects, sanfrancisco, gitscraping

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