6 items tagged “derek-willis”
2025
Six short video demos of LLM and Datasette projects
Last Friday Alex Garcia and I hosted a new kind of Datasette Public Office Hours session, inviting members of the Datasette community to share short demos of projects that they had built. The session lasted just over an hour and featured demos from six different people.
[... 1,047 words]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.
2020
How much can you learn from just two columns?
Derek Willis shared an intriguing dataset this morning: a table showing every Twitter account followed by an official GOP congressional Twitter account.
[... 951 words]2008
Represent. Andrei Scheinkman and Derek Willis describe how they built the NYTimes Represent feature using GeoDjango and PostGIS.
Represent and GeoDjango. The NYTimes new Represent application is built on GeoDjango.
2007
Django, iCal and vObject. Easy iCal generation for Django using vObject.