Derek Willis's Projects
Textbook and exercises for Fall 2022 JOUR772
Putting state-by-state CSVs from ActBlue FEC filings into Datasette
church choir management application
A free python library for accurate and scalelable deduplication and entity-resolution.
Class site for JOUR 490
Bootstrap support for Django projects
A Django app to refine, review and republish campaign finance data drawn from the California Secretary of Stateโs CAL-ACCESS database
A Django app to transform and refine campaign-finance data from the California Secretary of Stateโs CAL-ACCESS database
A Django app to download, extract and load campaign finance and lobbying activity data from the California Secretary of State's CAL-ACCESS database
A Django app to download and parse IRS political committee filings
Load the Ohio voter file into PostgreSQL with the Django ORM
A Django app to extract, refine and publish Risk Management Plan (RMP) data collected by the U.S. Federal Environment Protection Agency.
Django package that uses AWS Cognito and Warrant to create a Django backend and common views.
ASU Spring 2022 Data Journalism course textbook
Presentation for NICAR 2015 session
Basic outline/slides for Data + Journalism talk
The Scoop
Coursefiles
Other bloggy things
Data from the census bureau's "easy stats" site--the first available on the 113th Congress.
Basic utility to convert IRS exempt org files to CSVs
JOUR479K in-class exercises
Proof-of-concept app for extracting text from URLs
Foreign influence database