Derek Willis's repositories
data-reporting
Course materials for MPJO-722-01, Georgetown University
the_scrapes_of_hell
A compendium of worst-case scraping and parsing
wpni_updates
Partial archive of email to The Washington Post newsroom from WPNI
interviewing-data
Materials for Journalism Interactive 2014 Presentation
pinet-ignite
Ignite-style talk for PINET
data-driven-workshop
Links and materials for WVU Data Workshop
django-irs-filings
A Django app to download and parse IRS political committee filings
do-it-once-nicar-2015
Presentation for NICAR 2015 session
clerk_watcher
stuff
django-calaccess-campaign-browser
A Django app to refine, review and republish campaign finance data drawn from the California Secretary of State’s CAL-ACCESS database
django-calaccess-raw-data
A Django app to download, extract and load campaign finance and lobbying activity data from the California Secretary of State's CAL-ACCESS database
instagram-example
instagram api example (server side)
irs_527
proces 527 data to csvs
makinson
A Ruby gem for scraping opensecrets.org information
nd_oil_incidents
Script sample for downloading and parsing oilfield incidents in North Dakota
poindexter
Creates a datastore for information on 527s, political organizations which disclose donors and expenditures semiannually with the IRS and can raise and spend unlimited amounts of money without filing reports with the Federal Election Commission.
post_comments
Comments from the Washington Post. For your <strikethrough>pleasure</strikethrough> anguish.
prc
The Politico Reverse Chron - an exercise in d3
probablepeople
a probabilistic person parser
pyopenfec
A Python wrapper for the OpenFEC API.
RedNails
Fork of Ruby gem that extracts text via defined templates
ruby-openfec
Ruby wrapper for Open Fec API data
shboom_fts
Tom Torok's original ASP app for searching database tables with full-text support