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Ben Welsh

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67 projects

newshomepages

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An open-source archive that gathers, saves, shares and analyzes news homepages

warn-transformer

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Consolidate, enrich and analyze the data gathered by warn-scraper

warn-scraper

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Command-line interface for downloading WARN Act notices of qualified plant closings and mass layoffs from state government websites

cpi

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Quickly adjust U.S. dollars for inflation using the Consumer Price Index (CPI)

python-documentcloud

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A simple Python wrapper for the DocumentCloud API

sphinx-palewire-theme

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A Sphinx theme for sites hosted at palewi.re

bln

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Python client for the biglocalnews.org API

python-googlegeocoder

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A simple Python wrapper for Google’s geocoder API

nws-wwa

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Download watch, warning and advisory data from the National Weather Service

nws-aurora

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Download forecast data for Aurora Borealis and Aurora Australis from the National Weather Service

noaa-wildfires

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Download wildfires data from NOAA satellites

django-yamlfield

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A Django database field for storing YAML data

django-postgres-copy

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Quickly import and export delimited data with Django support for PostgreSQL’s COPY command

greeking

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Django template tools for printing filler, a technique from the days of hot type known as greeking

python-muckrock

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A simple Python wrapper for the MuckRock API

ipsos-credibility-interval

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Calculate Bayesian credibility intervals for online polling using the Ipsos method

censusbatchgeocoder

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A simple Python wrapper for the U.S. Census Geocoding Services API batch service

atcf-data-parser

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Parse a-deck data posted online by the Automated Tropical Cyclone Forecasting System

reuters-style

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Format dates, numbers and text to conform with the Reuters Style Guide, the standards that guide the world's largest independent newsroom

census-data-downloader

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Download U.S. census data and reformat it for humans

nifc-wildfires

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Download wildfires data from the National Interagency Fire Center

nasa-wildfires

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Download wildfire hotspots detected by NASA satellites and the Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS)

calfire-wildfires

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Download wildfires data from CalFire

savepagenow

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A simple Python wrapper and command-line interface for archive.org’s "Save Page Now" capturing service

civic-scraper

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Tools for downloading agendas, minutes and other documents produced by local government

inciweb-wildfires

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Download wildfire incidents data from InciWeb

django-bakery

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A set of helpers for baking your Django site out as flat files

court-scraper

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Download case information from U.S. county courts

census-map-consolidator

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Combine Census maps into new shapes

census-data-aggregator

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Combine U.S. census data responsibly

census-error-analyzer

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Analyze the margin of error in U.S. census data

census-map-downloader

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Easily download U.S. census maps

django-calaccess-processed-data

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A Django app to transform and refine campaign finance data from the California Secretary of State’s CAL-ACCESS database

django-calaccess-raw-data

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A Django app to download, extract and load campaign finance and lobbying activity data from the California Secretary of State's CAL-ACCESS database

ccdc-opencivicdata

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campaign finance fork for python opencivicdata library

django-calaccess-scraped-data

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A Django app to scrape campaign-finance data from the California Secretary of State’s CAL-ACCESS website

storysniffer

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Inspect a URL and estimate if it contains a news story

django-internetarchive-storage

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A custom Django storage system for Internet Archive collections

django-anss-archive

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A Django application to archive real-time earthquake notifications from the USGS's Advanced National Seismic System

air-quality-index

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Download air quality index data from AirNow

altair-latimes

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A Los Angeles Times theme for Python's Altair statistical visualization library

geomac-wildfires

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Download wildfires data from NIFC

archiveis

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A simple Python wrapper for the archive.is capturing service

django-bigbuild

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The open-source engine that powers bigbuilder, the Los Angeles Times Data Desk's system for publishing standalone pages

mlbcolors

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Easy access to the official colors of every team in Major League Baseball

django-autoarchive

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Django helpers for automatically archiving URLs

scrapy-calaccess-crawler

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A Scrapy app to scrape campaign-finance data from the California Secretary of State’s CAL-ACCESS website

p2p-latimes

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Tribune P2P API wrapper

python-desknet

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A simple Python wrapper for the DeskNet API

webcitation

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A simple Python wrapper for the webcitation.org capturing service

django-calaccess-campaign-browser

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A Django app to refine and investigate campaign finance data drawn from the California Secretary of State’s CAL-ACCESS database. This is a work in progress. Its analysis should be considered as provisional until it is further tested and debugged.

django-fec-raw-data

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A Django app to download, extract and load campaign finance from the Federal Election Commission

django-softhyphen

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A Python library for hyphenating HTML in your Django project

django-memento-framework

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A set for helpers for Django web sites to enable the Memento framework for time-based access

latimes-calculate

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Some simple math we use to do journalism.

latimes-statestyle

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Standardizes data about U.S. states

storytracker

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Tools for tracking stories for news homepages

python-elections

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A Python wrapper for the AP's U.S. election data service.

django-calaccess-parser

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A Django app to download, extract and load campaign finance and lobbying activity data from the California Secretary of State's CAL-ACCESS database

django-project-template

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django-urlarchivefield

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A custom Django model field that automatically archives a URL

python-lametro-api

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A simple Python wrapper for the L.A. Metro's API.

latimes-pluggablemaps-usstates

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L.A. Times Pluggable Maps: U.S. States

latimes-pluggablemaps-lametrorail

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L.A. Times Pluggable Maps: L.A. Metro Rail

latimes-appengine-template

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A basic template to start a new Django application hosted by Google App Engine.

latimes-pluggablemaps-uscounties

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L.A. Times Pluggable Maps: U.S. Counties

latimes-qiklog

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A simplified wrapper for Python's logging module

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