A quick look at UK petitions data in Python
More gentle exploration of python. This time some lines of code for grabbing Parliament petition data.
Topic
code
A collection of 5 issues
Beep. Boop. That’s the sound of my commute
How an impulse buy and a bit of playing around with Python led to an ‘almost’ musical experience of my daily commute.
The most important code you can learn: the hyperlink
<a href="http://andydickinson.net" > Andy's site </a>
It’s amazing isn’t it? How something so simple can be so fundamental.
In this world of content management systems, data journalism, javascript, python
and all the other coding and technological innovations we
A quick way to test web content on your mac
If you’re getting into this whole coding journalist and tinkering with HTML and
javascript you’ll eventually get to the point where you need a webserver to play
with.
Webservers, amongst other things contain the software that enables you to play
with more complex scripting, handling ‘requests’ for content
Archive mashup pics with extra interactivity
Update: Google maps streetview now has a history option
[http://google-latlong.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/go-back-in-time-with-street-view.html]
which might offer some useful sources (not too historic though)
Update 2: And people are doing great stuff with video
[http://londonist.com/2014/04/new-video-beautifully-blends-old-and-new-london.php]
.
Over the last few weeks