python 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.
Experiments 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.
code 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 are compelled
code 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
code Archive mashup pics with extra interactivity Update: Google maps streetview now has a history option which might offer some useful sources (not too historic though) Update 2: And people are doing great stuff with video. Over the last few weeks I’ve seen a number of sites making use of mashups of archive and current images.
