Derek Willis's Projects
instagram api example (server side)
Materials for Journalism Interactive 2014 Presentation
simple text parser for IRS 527 data
proces 527 data to csvs
A project to make it easier to link to individual FEC transactions. With @bycoffe.
Assignments and exercises for Sports Data Analysis & Visualization
Template repository for Sports Data Analysis & Visualization
A collection of stuff for my News Applications class at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. More to be added later.
A collection of introductions to various datasets, giving journalists some background and friendly pointers before they start doing analysis. Like "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," only for journalists. And about datasets.
Klaxon enables reporters and editors to monitor scores of sites on the web for newsworthy changes.
Finds links to Wikipedia in URLs
List of US States in various Rails friendly formats
A Ruby gem for scraping opensecrets.org information
Stuff to be updated
Thin Ruby wrapper for NYT Article Search API Version 2
GIS data for the State of Maryland
Most Viewed (at) WashingtonPost.com
API for NCAA statistics
Scraped data from stats.ncaa.org
A repository of women's soccer data scraped from stats.ncaa.org, plus the scrapers that did the work.
A repository of NCAA women's volleyball data scraped from stats.ncaa.org, including the scrapers written in R.
Script sample for downloading and parsing oilfield incidents in North Dakota
Notes for Finding the Story: Campaign Finance
Regular expression hands-on, NICAR 2017
An exploration of the NICAR-L listserv for NICAR 2019
NYTimes Newswire API as a stream using node.js
Collection of Jupyter notebooks with data analysis examples using Agate