Jeremy Singer-Vine

Plumb a PDF for detailed information about each char, rectangle, line, et cetera — and easily extract text and tables.

pdfplumber is a Python library for extracting text, tables, and structured data from machine-generated PDF files, giving you precise character positions and the ability to crop any region of a page.

A simple, extensible Markov chain generator.

Download the entire Wayback Machine archive for a given URL.

Render Jupyter/IPython notebooks without running a notebook server.

Render Jupyter/IPython notebooks on the fly, in the browser. (Or on the command line, if you'd like.)

Easy color scales and color conversion for Python.

Combine your Python virtualenvs.

Pandas-based utility to calculate weighted means, medians, distributions, standard deviations, and more.

Literate data analysis with iPython notebooks and Jekyll.

Source files for "An Introduction to VisiData"

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

A place for me to share VisiData plugins I've written.

A simple API for setting matplotlib styles, as well as a repository of nice styles.

A one-page cheat sheet for VisiData, available in multiple languages.

A Jekyll plugin for using Git repositories as posts, giving you access to a post's commits, diffs, and more.

A Chrome extension for declaring "tab bankruptcy" without losing all your links.

A simple tool for executing Jupyter notebooks from the command line.

Render any Backbone.js Collection as an HTML table.

Dataset: BuzzFeed News “Trending” Strip, 2018–2023

Fetch information about the users who've starred a given GitHub repository.

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Recipes for useful Python virtualenvs.

A library and command-line tool for fetching Facebook Pages' published posts.

Python wrapper around TinyLetter's publicly accessible — but undocumented — API.

Half-baked idea: Conceptual building blocks for data analysis.

Somewhere between a total joke and a useful library for fetching Vine.co videos.

Command-line tool for fetching message, URL, and subscriber data for the TinyLetter newsletters you own.

A browser-based tool for converting Google Spreadsheets into responsive HTML <table>s.

CSS & JSON files to help developers use the official colors of New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

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Fetch autocomplete suggestions from Google Search.

NICAR 2015 conference schedule as CSV and JSON, plus the underlying Python scraper.

[Work in progress.] Parse the GIF 89a file format, down to the minor details. Pure Python, no dependencies.

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NICAR 2017 conference schedule as JSON and CSV, plus the underlying Python scraper.

WRIT1-CE9741, Fall 2013, NYU School of Continuing and Professional Studies

Efficiently concatenate CSVs (or other tabular text files), stripping extra header lines.

Community maintained fork of pdfminer

CSVs and parsers for the Social Security Administration's historical baby name data.

A terminal spreadsheet multitool for discovering and arranging data

IDEA: A simple, structured, standardized, technology-agnostic way to represent the status of things.

Command-line utility and Ruby library for creating/sending messages in OSX's Mail.app program.

A bare-bones CSS stylesheet for creating "card"-style elements.

Python CLI tool and library for diffing CSV and JSON files

Your unofficial guide to what's happening next at NICAR 2020.

Your unofficial guide to what's happening next at NICAR 2018.

Scan a folder of document files of all types and extract the text into a CSV suitable for Overview

Let readers toggle between two versions of a text.

An experiment in stupid-simple HTML article text extraction.

Tabletop.js gives spreadsheets legs

Article-list and site files for linstapaper.com

Fidget.js is a small, configurable JavaScript library that resizes blocks of text to fit their containers.

Find the precise latitude and longitude of any point on Google Maps. A Chrome extension.

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

Two methods that *seem* to work...

A suite of utilities for converting to and working with CSV, the king of tabular file formats.

A JavaScript library for adding buttons to embedded Google Maps.

As in, "get the jub done." Or as in, "jQuery, Underscore, Backbone." It's a shell script that automatically grabs the latest versions of those libraries, so that you can get on with prototyping.

Hook into and/or monkeypatch any Ruby class- or instance-method. Provides 'before' and 'after' hooks, plus their destructive evil twins.

Goofing around with collaborative storytelling. Fork me!

Materials for a series of learning lunches on news development topics.

Collusion for Chrome.

An attempt to simulate the long-term net profit/loss of people who buy New York state lottery tickets on a regular basis.

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

The code behind http://weddingroulette.com/

A simple library for iterating through paginated Facebook API endpoints.

The NICAR 2019 conference schedule as JSON and CSV files, plus the underlying Python scraper.

Render iPython notebooks to other layouts, via templates. Library and command-line tool.

CartoDB Node.js OAuth example

learn.jquery.com web site

Insanely fast, full-stack, headless testing using node.js

Griddle.js is lightweight tool for creating and manipulating programmable, fluid, shift-able grids.

Automatically sync your Jekyll project to S3 on every (re)build.

Volunteer data cleaning for the Data Liberation Project, focused on national inmate complaints dataset

Citations data from USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, flagged for various phenomenons of public interest.

Code and data supporting Futuro Investigates’ examination of mortgage application outcomes in New Jersey

Profitgraph for CSGOLounge and DOTA2Lounge

Dissemination of harmonization code and data for SDI Health surveys

Fast Process::spawn for Rubys >= 1.8.7 based on the posix_spawn() system interfaces