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Fetch latest updates on Texas death row

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Fetch latest updates on Texas death row. An exercise in scraping and parsing HTML about criminal justice events. Count days since texas execution.py. Reads the top row from the past executions list and parses the date value. Count days until texas execution.py. Reads the top row from the scheduled executions list and parses the date value. Get texas scheduled executions.py. Instead of getting just the date value, this script returns JSON-formatted metadata about the most recent and next Texas execution.

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The Examples

http://mundaneprogramming.github.io/examples

This site is not intended as a reference for best coding practices or universally useful scripts, but rather, a collection of. Of the kinds of small, mundane tasks that we can try to program for, and the (often sloppy) design decisions and compromises that go into such one-off work. The source code of the scripts is included because, why not? But they aren’t guaranteed to work as-is, so you copy-paste-execute at your own risk. Convert Excel to CSV. Working with data that comes from an Excel spreadsheet.

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Timestamp and organize downloaded files

http://mundaneprogramming.github.io/examples/time-stamped-downloads

Timestamp and organize downloaded files. Not quite as good as git, but better than hand-naming files yourself. Open the web browser. Save/Download the URL to your. Move it to a subfolder so that. Rename it to a time or a version number, e.g. Example.com.html (1). Example.com.html (2). The problem with time. If you’re new to programming, chances are, you are new to the concept of how damn complex time can be. Not just the complicated ways in how humans struggle with time, e.g. For this example, we’ll need...

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Finding text within a group of images

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Finding text within a group of images. You remember documenting a website by taking screenshots. But how do you search by text? How do you find text in images? From PIL import Image import pytesseract fname = './files/images/tess/nytimes.com.201506231100.jpg' img = Image.open(fname) print(pytesseract.image to string(img) ). The header. The styled text was poorly translated, including the New York Times logo. But everything else is legible. There’s a few spacing problems,. SHOP THE NEW COLLECTION. Gz/6 SH...

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Dummy text detector

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Do a last-second sweep of embarrassing words and phrases. Dummywords sweep inline.py. Http:/ www.wdyl.com/profanity? Http:/ www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/style-blog/post/cqcx-ap-corrects-title-of-play-about-journalistic-corrections/2012/02/16/gIQAvKPjHR blog.html http:/ bleacherreport.com/articles/2267891-chicago-sun-times-accidentally-leaves-dummy-text-in-chicago-bears-article. While Google’s recently launched What Do You Love?

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Interesting FOIA datasets and ideas from MuckRock

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Interesting FOIA datasets and ideas from MuckRock. August 1, 2015. To learn the scope of what American investigators and reporters want to know out about their government, there’s no better place than MuckRock’s Freedom of Information requests list. Filtering the list by Status= Completed. Will show requests in which a government agency delivered. A few of the completed requests. That caught my eye. These links show the original request; click on the Files tab. Insane Clown Posse [FBI]. Apparently there ...

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How to download the history of your physical Amazon orders

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How to download the history of your physical Amazon orders. July 14, 2015. After seeing this post on r/ruby. About importing your Amazon order history into SQLite, I thought:. I kind of want to know how much I’ve spent on Amazonbut not enough to write a program tonight. While I didn’t find an API for order history, Amazon has a convenient order history report-building tool (. That can generate a CSV of every Amazon item you’ve shipped in the past 10 years. Here’s what the order form looks like:. Orders&#...

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About

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I am currently a lecturer in computational journalism. At Stanford University. You can find me on Twitter at @dancow. This site is built on Jekyll. Because I was tired of logging into WordPress for my old blog. Because Jekyll is so easy to publish with, I end up just posting drafts and notes with the intention of eventually making complete posts. I’ll eventually style the site correctly. Dan Nguyen is a programming journalist currently teaching computational journalism at Stanford University.

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How to get started with open-source

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How to get started with open-source. August 13, 2015. In response to a reddit/learnprogramming thread on working on other people’s projects. The best way to get started in open source software is to add a feature to a project that you actually need. Besides the karma boost from contributing to open-source, you get two very personal benefits:. And I’ll realize that I need to stop nitpicking my own code to death. Some examples from my Github history:. However, having to integrate it into their framework of...

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Why I've Stopped Teaching Web Scraping

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Why I've Stopped Teaching Web Scraping. July 9, 2015. This post is in-progress. To come: lots of negative thoughts about teaching web scraping to beginning programmers. This is sparked by a recent NICAR-L question. Here’s my partial response, to be later elaborated when I have time:. Dan Nguyen is a programming journalist currently teaching computational journalism at Stanford University. You can find my older blog at danwin.com. My Stanford University Profile. The Stanford Computational Journalism Lab.

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Moving from WordPress to Jekyll

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Moving from WordPress to Jekyll. July 6, 2015. This post is in-progress. After reading the Stack Exchange engineering team’s excellent writeup. On how they moved their WordPress blogs to Jekyll, I’ve decided to quit procrastinating and start my own Jekyll-powered blog blog.danwin.com. I’ve used WordPress for my blog at danwin.com. For the past 5 years and I’ll probably leave that as is, as I don’t have the Stack Exchange team’s talent or patience for doing the content migration. It’s funny how a few minu...

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Moving beyond copy-and-paste when learning to program

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Moving beyond copy-and-paste when learning to program. July 10, 2015. This post is in-progress. One of the key hacks to efficiently learning how to code is to. However, I admit to having the bad habit of copying-and-pasting my own code, because I’ve told myself Well, I’ve already written it. Beforejust because I can’t remember it off hand doesn’t mean I need to re-type it. So I’m trying to get better at kicking that habit. TK: Post an animated GIF. One window at a time. TK: Post an animated GIF. The one ...

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What Netflix and AOL have in common

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What Netflix and AOL have in common. July 26, 2015. AOL and its unprofitable media ventures famously persisted because of revenues from AOL’s ostensibly obsolete dial-up service. Turns out Netflix is in a similar situation. In that its popular streaming service has yet to break even while its original business of sending out DVDs is bringing in hundreds of millions in profit. Via the New York Times’s Emily Steel. Netflix has 5.3 million DVD subscribers, a significant falloff from its peak of about 20...

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A (proposed) guide for exploring the Open FEC API

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A (proposed) guide for exploring the Open FEC API. July 9, 2015. This post is in-progress. More fine work by 18F. The new API is just very tasty icing on the cake. The FEC has long been in the forefront of transparency in the U.S. federal government. As the Sunlight post. Some topics I’d like to cover:. How to find campaign contribution totals per cycle. Given a candidate, how to find totals per cycle. Or lifetime of committee. You can find my older blog at danwin.com. My Stanford University Profile.

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