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2023

Teaching News Apps with Codespaces (via) Derek Willis used GitHub Codespaces for the latest data journalism class he taught, and it eliminated the painful process of trying to get students on an assortment of Mac, Windows and Chromebook laptops all to a point where they could start working and learning together.

# 23rd March 2023, 12:39 am / data-journalism, derek-willis, github, teaching, github-codespaces

2020

How much can you learn from just two columns?

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Derek Willis shared an intriguing dataset this morning: a table showing every Twitter account followed by an official GOP congressional Twitter account.

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2008

Represent. Andrei Scheinkman and Derek Willis describe how they built the NYTimes Represent feature using GeoDjango and PostGIS.

# 29th December 2008, 10:10 pm / andrei-scheinkman, derek-willis, django, geodjango, gis, new-york-times, postgis, postgresql, python

Represent and GeoDjango. The NYTimes new Represent application is built on GeoDjango.

# 20th December 2008, 9:07 pm / derek-willis, django, geodjango, new-york-times, python, represent

2007

Django, iCal and vObject. Easy iCal generation for Django using vObject.

# 1st August 2007, 11:09 am / derek-willis, django, ical, python, vobject