Links It’s been a little while since I’ve updated here. I’ve been posting regularly at the OpenHatch blog, and on my MetaScience tumblr, and I’ve been busy with a pack of things. Probably the most useful to mention is the Boston Civic Expo, which I’m co-organizing. It’s on Friday, May 31st. If you’re interested in [...]
I’ve been hearing good things about the Capitol Words API for months now, so I decided to try doing something with it. I wrote a script which queries the API for instances of a given word and returns two text files: the first is a compendium of sentences from every time a Republican has said [...]
A round up of recent goings on: Open Data Day was great. Tate Williams, an Open Media Boston reporter, wrote about it. Our OpenHatch event at Harvard also went well, I thought. I’ve got a blog post about it here. I did my monthly data analysis and put it up on GitHub. I’m not making [...]
This Saturday, February 23rd, is Open Data Day, “a gathering of citizens in cities around the world to write applications, liberate data, create visualizations and publish analyses using open public data to show support for and encourage the adoption open data policies by the world’s local, regional and national governments.” There are nearly one hundred [...]
As I mentioned in my last post, I chose to look at the EPA Toxics Release Inventory this month. The full dataset was way too large for my little netbook to handle, so I filtered the results to my home state of Massachusetts, and downloaded it in csv format. I used this helpful pdf to [...]
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