Tag Archives: web scraping

Marina Abramović’s Top 50 Time Hogs; (Women sit around a lot)

June 8, 2010

OK, now it’s time to arrange the participants in the MOMA’s “Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present” Flickr set by number of minutes each person stared at Abramovic. The Paco dude who went about a dozen times is the only… Continue reading →

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Coding for Journalists 101 : A four-part series

April 6, 2010

Update, January 2012: Everything…yes, everything, is superseded by my free online book, The Bastards Book of Ruby, which is a much more complete walkthrough of basic programming principles with far more practical and up-to-date examples and projects than what you’ll… Continue reading →

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Coding for Journalists 102: Who’s in Jail Now: Collecting info from a county jail site

April 6, 2010

This is part 2 of a 4-part series in introductory coding for journalists. Go here for the first lesson. This lesson and code will still be verbose, but will have a lot less hand-holding than the previous one.

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Coding for Journalists 101: Go from knowing nothing to scraping Web pages. In an hour. Hopefully.

April 6, 2010

UPDATE (12/1/2011): Ever since writing this guide, I’ve wanted to put together a site that is focused both on teaching the basics of programming and showing examples of practical code. I finally got around to making it: The Bastards Book… Continue reading →

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