Joe Germuska

This is an integration layer that sits between Whoosh and Django so that full-text searching can be not only possible within any Django project, but extremely easy as well.

A simple demonstration of a GeoDjango application.

Repo for Pandas hands-on session for NICAR 2016

download and parse legislation from all 50 state legislatures

Autocomplete for address searches

OpenNews hack projects

Schemas to convert common fixed-width file formats into CSV using in2csv.

This is a gem for storing files on The Internet Archive, http://Archive.org/ .

DataKind Chicago Data Dive, May 2012

PostgreSQL schema and import scripts for recent US Census data

Chicago TIF Information Explorer (an OpenGov Chicago Project)

A suite of Django template tags to generate charts using Google's chart API.

A light extension to PyRSS2Gen to support GeoRSS

a library for scraping things

A library of utilities for working with CSV, the king of tabular file formats.

A simple Python wrapper for the DocumentCloud API

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A little project around our JQBX group

puppies for all

Materials for NICAR2016 panel on demographics

NYU ITP data storytelling

Census data of communities resembling Ferguson, Mo.

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TimelineJS: A Storytelling Timeline built in JavaScript.

A collection of introductions to various datasets, giving journalists some background and friendly pointers before they start doing analysis. Like "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," only for journalists. And about datasets.

python client library for interacting with Project Vote Smart API

data commons entity store and utilities to help match records

Search for Django. Based lightly on Djangosearch. Currently beta.

Crime and Punishment in Chicago

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A repository for all code generated at our Datadive events

A collection of custom plugins for the Cloudkick agent

Scripts for dealing with U.S. Census data

Repository for collaborative editing of API data

a Django-based platform for rapidly developing websites

Testing GH Pages for Gigapixel Storymap

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SvelteKit frontend for archive.ire.org

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TimelineJS v3: A Storytelling Timeline built in JavaScript. http://timeline.knightlab.com

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A JS library and Svelte component that implements and visualizes a self-organizing map (SOM)

Code and links for a workshop at NICAR 2025 in Minneapolis

Declarative statistical visualization library for Python

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A collection of the work of Edward Estlin Cummings, as it enters the public domain.

A step-by-step guide to publishing a simple news application.

Klaxon enables reporters and editors to monitor scores of sites on the web for newsworthy changes.

Create lists of reference data interactively.

A game where users must identify a city's neighborhoods as fast as possible

Explore and download data from Census APIs

An exhaustive reference to problems seen in real-world data along with suggestions on how to resolve them.

Fuzzy matches and merging of datasets in pandas using csvmatch

A JSON dataset of information about language museums around the world

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

Sample DatoCMS website built with GatsbyJS

An interactive SQL book

Home page and documentation for grano.

Data collection system for City Bureau Documenters Project

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Build Accelerated Mobile Page versions of your Jekyll posts

A free python library for accurate and scalelable deduplication and entity-resolution.

Collection of learning materials for Open Knowledge Maps

Pre-processed results for Kentucky elections

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Static site generator for designers. Uses Python and Django templates.

Twitter, quick. Fetch and store tweets on short notice.

Python library with common functionality for writing web scrapers

A minimalist SDK for developing skills for the Amazon Echo's ASK - Alexa Skills Kit using Amazon Web Services's Python Lambda Functions. Currently supported profiles are for Linux servers and AWS Lambda. Check the appropriate release branch. The cherrypy release branches have added components for request validation.

A Python data analysis library that is optimized for humans instead of machines.

Media-Management with Grappelli

Documentation for Polymer

The what (and how) digital humanities and new nerds want to explore together

Materials and Resources for the "Data Audioization/Sonification" session at SRCCON 2015.

An open forum to ask prominent members of the government technology community (almost) anything

Quantify Pitchfork coverage

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

A Flask-based static site authoring tool.

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

a probabilistic person parser

Replication files for the March 2, 2015 Barron's story "The Little Guy Wins!," measuring market makers' trade execution quality.

A simple, clean, easy-to-modify Slack chatbot

An exercise in defining the perfect home bar setup

A tool for visualizing a Twitter user's relationships

A simple game for testin' your guessin'

Easily crowdsource the analysis of your documents

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Election Money - Bulk Downloads from the Illinois State Board of Elections

A thin Python client for The New York Times Campaign Finance API

A talk about Tarbell for #SNDMakes

A collection of data policies enacted by governments throughout the U.S.

Chicago Safe Communities Hackathon

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Literate data analysis with iPython notebooks and Jekyll.

Some files to go with a talk to the Medill MSJ capstone class

Core javascript functionality for StoryJS (including TimelineJS)

OpenFuego is the open-source version of Fuego, a Twitter bot created to track the future-of-journalism crowd and the links they’re sharing.

Mapping and analyzing local business data from the Census Bureau

A Django app that tracks the population of Cook County Jail over time and summarizes trends.

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Sample app and documentation for the Chicago Tribune's Crime in Chicago API.

SlimIt - a JavaScript minifier/parser in Python

Ask questions against government data.

Chicago City Council Legislative Information

A Python version of ProPublica's TableSetter, using Flask

Tabletop.js gives spreadsheets legs

Command line tools for generating map images from Mapnik configuration.