Derek Willis's Projects
This database is a record of NYPD misconduct complaints made by the public to the Civilian Complaint Review Board (CCRB).
History of NYPD Officer Profile data from nypdonline.org
Sample project using the NYT Congress API
A sample app using the new Districts API from The New York Times
Push NYT politics articles to instapaper
A gem for accessing the NYTimes Article Search API
A Ruby wrapper for the New York Times Congress API.
Helper methods for generating text that conforms to "The New York Times Manual of Style and Usage"
Disk caching for open-uri
The first RESTful API for the Federal Election Commission. We're aiming to make campaign finance more accessible for journalists, academics, developers, and other transparency seekers.
OpenSecrets.org API Ruby Wrapper
A repository for notes and ideas for a SRCCON session about people data.
A tiny JS app for tracking mentions of The New York Times in the Congressional Record.
WIP: Parse archived parler pages into structured html
Ignite-style talk for PINET
Data from the Plum Book, published by the GPO every 4 years
Creates a datastore for information on 527s, political organizations which disclose donors and expenditures semiannually with the IRS and can raise and spend unlimited amounts of money without filing reports with the Federal Election Commission.
No reason, really.
It's more politico than even Politico.
Just a little fun I'm having
Comments from the Washington Post. For your <strikethrough>pleasure</strikethrough> anguish.
Ruby wrapper to washingtonpost.com articles and blog posts
The Politico Reverse Chron - an exercise in d3
a probabilistic person parser
Open Data Policy — Managing Information as an Asset
R Functions to Interact with the ProPublica APIs
A Python wrapper for the OpenFEC API.
Another Python client for the NY Times' Congress API
Basic python wrapper for The New York Times Congress API