Ryan Pitts

journalists-guide-datasets. A collection of introductions to various datasets, giving journalists some friendly background before they start doing analysis. Like "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," only for journalists. And about datasets.

django-kindle. A simple app for providing a feed of newspaper stories to Amazon for a Kindle edition.

django-stateface. A simple Django templatetag for rendering icons from ProPublica's awesome StateFace font project.

then-and-now-gallery. A demo template for the Then & Now photo gallery app we made for Spokesman.com. We're big fans of The New York Times Then & Now photo widget, so we made a Django+jQuery app for our site. You can see a live demo at http://ryanpitts.com/projects/then-now-gallery/

python-scraping-primer. Materials for a one-hour workshop at NICAR 2019

twitteripsum.js. Twitter Ipsum generates placeholder text based on a Twitter user's latest tweets.

gsheet-to-json. Take data from a Google Spreadsheet, make json, store it in S3.

source. The code that runs Source, a Knight-Mozilla OpenNews website covering the intersection of code and journalism.

boylecamp. Solutioneering best-of-breed trolling efforts for @andymboyle, yo.

django-greeking. Tools for printing filler text, a technique from the days of hot type known as greeking.

metallica-verses. Plaintext version of Metallica lyrics from the first four albums, suitable for machine learning? Duplicate lines removed, some poetic license taken with punctuation and arrangement.

texts. assorted text data

growlerbot. Scrapes a tap list, posts new beers to Twitter.

listfilter. Listfilter creates a fast, case-insensitive text filter against a list of HTML elements on a page.

baseball-sandbox. Just playing with baseball stats.

playdoh-docs. Documentation for the playdoh application template.

membot. A Slackbot that remembers things you don't want to forget. Totally a work in progress.

journalism. A Python library that takes the horror out of basic data analysis and manipulation.

fairdiceroll. // guaranteed to be random.

ichiro3000. A little Python script that helps you track a hitter's progress toward an MLB milestone.

twitter-mistadobalina. A script that posts raps by Del Tha Funkee Homosapien to @mistadobalina on Twitter

mozilla-opennews. Static website (built using Jekyll) to support the Mozilla Opennews project