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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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MySQL (and SQLite) for Data Journalists - danwin.com
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Words, photos, and code by Dan Nguyen. The 'g' is mostly silent. MySQL (and SQLite) for Data Journalists. My first task since joining Stanford was to create the Public Affairs Data Journalism I. A required course for all students in the graduate program. As public records and government workings deserve their own class, I didn’t know for sure if it’d be worth teaching SQL to my students, most of whom hadn’t gone beyond Excel. Because I’m dealing with a variety of operating systems, from Windows XP ...
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Lonnie Johnson, the Millionaire Super-Soaker-Inventing Rocket Scientist Who is Trying to Save the World - danwin.com
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Words, photos, and code by Dan Nguyen. The 'g' is mostly silent. Lonnie Johnson, the Millionaire Super-Soaker-Inventing Rocket Scientist Who is Trying to Save the World. Lonnie Johnson, the inventor of the Super Soaker. This recent headline caught my eye (which reflexively winced from painful memories of point-blank encounters):. Super Soaker creator awarded $72.9M from Hasbro. Not just because it involved one of my favorite pre-video-game toys, or because of the money involved. But that there was a.
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Peter Norvig on cleverness and having enough data - danwin.com
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Words, photos, and code by Dan Nguyen. The 'g' is mostly silent. Peter Norvig on cleverness and having enough data. I’m reposting this entry, near verbatim, from The Blog of Justice. Which picks out a keen quote from Google/Stanford genius, Peter Norvig, from his Google Tech Talk on August 9, 2011. But I also think about it in the context of people who. The flaw here is, well, if you don’t have enough data (i.e. more than a few thousand data-points or observations), then no computer program...W3rules ...
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Fran Allen and the social relevance of computer science - danwin.com
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Words, photos, and code by Dan Nguyen. The 'g' is mostly silent. Fran Allen and the social relevance of computer science. Frances Allen's biography, as seen on computerhistory.org. If you haven’t read it yet, Peter Seibel’s Coders at Work (2009). The way they do. So in a book full of interviews worth reading, it’s not quite accurate to say that Fran Allen. It’s better to say that Allen is. Allen is also different in that she’s the only woman in Seibel’s book, and understandably, she has a few...I feel it...
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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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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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Goodbye WordPress; hello Jekyll and Markdown - danwin.com
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Words, photos, and code by Dan Nguyen. The 'g' is mostly silent. Goodbye WordPress; hello Jekyll and Markdown. WordPress is great software, but the fact that it takes many minutes to just publish a simple, HTML-error-ridden post has kept me from updating this blog. So I’m planning on doing future blogging at blog.danwin.com. It takes a little time to set up the Jekyll instance. This entry was posted in thoughts. July 7, 2015. I'm a programmer journalist. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Top Posts and Pages.
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