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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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Articles - danwin.com
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Words, photos, and code by Dan Nguyen. The 'g' is mostly silent. Soft-launching Stanford’s Computational Journalism Lab. Last week, my Stanford colleagues and I launched the website for the Computational Journalism Lab. It’s a soft-launch, as the lab isn’t a. Lab, but more of an umbrella for the computational work and meetups that we are planning, such as a Computational Journalism conference in 2016, our collaboration in the California Civic Data Coalition. And of course, our coursework. October 4, 2015.
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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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Syllabi | Investigative Journalism Education Consortium
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Syllabi – Investigative Journalism Education Consortium. Investigative Journalism Education Consortium. Investigative Journalism Education Consortium. CAR and Data Syllabi. Investigative Journalism Education Consortium. Investigative Journalism Education Consortium. CAR and Data Syllabi. Below are links and descriptions to syllabi from various investigative journalism courses (In alphabetical order of university, then professor's name). Arizona State: Prof. Jaqueline Petchel, Depth Reporting. Uses data t...
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How to compile OpenCV 2.4.10 on Ubuntu 14.04 and 14.10 - danwin.com
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Words, photos, and code by Dan Nguyen. The 'g' is mostly silent. How to compile OpenCV 2.4.10 on Ubuntu 14.04 and 14.10. Running a simple face detection algorithm via OpenCV-python. For my upcoming Computational Methods in the Civic Sphere class at Stanford. I wanted my students to have access to OpenCV so that they could explore computer-vision algorithms, such as face detection with Haar classifiers. On the Stanford FarmShare machines. To install both Python 2.7.8 and OpenCV 2.4.9.1. Using Anaconda wor...
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