Simon Willison’s Weblog

Publish the data behind your stories with SQLite and Datasette. I presented a workshop on Datasette at the IRE and NICAR CAR 2019 data journalism conference yesterday. Here’s the worksheet I prepared for the tutorial.

# 9th March 2019, 6:27 pm / my-talks, data-journalism, datasette, nicar

Slides, notes and links from my Datasette talk at PyBay (via) I presented a session about Datasette at the PyBay conference in San Francisco this morning. I talked about the project itself and demonstrated ways of creating and publishing databases using csvs-to-sqlite, Datasette Publish and my new sqlite-utils library.

# 19th August 2018, 11:23 pm / my-talks, datasette, sqlite, sqlite-utils

mendoza-trees-workshop (via) Eventbrite Argentina has an academy program to train new Python/Django developers. I presented a workshop there this morning showing how Django and Jupyter can be used together to iterate on a project. Since the session was primarily about demonstrating Jupyter it was mostly live-coding, but the joy of Jupyter is that at the end of a workshop you can go back and add inline commentary to the notebooks that you used. In putting together the workshop I learned about the django_extensions “/manage.py shell_plus --notebook” command—it’s brilliant! It launches Jupyter in a way that lets you directly import your Django models without having to mess around with DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE.

# 8th May 2018, 5:22 pm / speaking, jupyter, tutorial, django, eventbrite, my-talks

Datasette—a talk at Zeit Day SF 2018 (via) Slides from the talk I gave today about Datasette and Datasette Publish at the Zeit Day SF conference.

# 28th April 2018, 9:31 pm / zeit-now, my-talks, datasette

Feature Flags, from PyCon 2014. Slides from a 15 minute talk I gave at PyCon 2014 about feature flags - what they are, how to use them and how we implemented them at both Lanyrd and Eventbrite.

This was part of a longer workshop on Advanced Django Patterns from Eventbrite and Lanyrd, which I co-presented with Andrew Godwin and Nathan Yergler.

# 10th April 2014, 6:27 pm / pycon, python, django, feature-flags, speaking, my-talks

What’s coming in Django 1.2 (presentation notes). I wrote up some background notes for the talk on Django 1.2 I gave at DJUGL last week.

# 5th December 2009, 5:10 pm / django, python, djugl, speaking, my-talks

Exploring Python (via) Notes from the introduction to Python presentation I gave today at Stack Overflow DevDays Amsterdam.

# 2nd November 2009, 3:35 pm / stackoverflow, devdays, speaking, python, my-talks

Scope. Matt Webb’s opening keynote at this year’s reboot11. You owe it to yourself to read it.

# 8th July 2009, 8:15 pm / matt-webb, scope, my-talks, reboot

Zeppelin 101 in 5 mins (via) Ribot videoed my five minute lightning talk on Zeppelins at last night’s Skillswap Brighton.

# 30th October 2008, 5:05 pm / video, speaking, ribot, skillswap, vimeo, zeppelins, lightning-talks, my-talks

When Ajax Attacks! Web application security fundamentals. Slides and notes from my talk on web application security at @media Ajax last Tuesday.

# 20th September 2008, 4:16 pm / atmediaajax, atmediaajax2008, security, csrf, xss, slides, ajax, javascript, speaking, my-talks

When Ajax Attacks! Web application security fundamentals. Slides and (other people’s) notes from my presentation at @media Ajax on Tuesday.

# 17th September 2008, 11:18 pm / ajax, atmediaajax, atmediaajax08, csrf, javascript, security, speaking, xss, recovered, my-talks

I love Zeppelins, and you should too (via) Slides from my PyCon UK lightning talk on Zeppelins. I’ve annotated them using SlideShare comments.

# 13th September 2008, 6:38 pm / zeppelins, airships, pyconuk, pyconuk2008, lightning-talks, speaking, slides, my-talks

Django snippets: Orderable inlines using drag and drop with jQuery UI. Code example from my PyCon tutorial on customising the Django admin interface.

# 13th September 2008, 12:19 pm / pyconuk2008, pyconuk, django, tutorials, speaking, snippets, sortable, jquery, python, dragndrop, django-admin, my-talks