The 2010 CAR Conference begins on Thursday, and here are some of the sessions I’m trying not to miss:
Thursday, March 11
Big Data: Analyzing legislation with machine learning. Always good to hear what Chase Davis has been up to.
Open Source GIS. Now that mapping is more and more accessible, it pays to stay on top of [...]
As part of our roll-out of version 3 of the NYT Congress API, I was tasked with coming up with a sample application that uses the API to do something mildly interesting, or at least functional. I had gotten a book on Google App Engine for my birthday and was pretty excited to see that [...]
This year’s computer-assisted reporting conference in Phoenix has a couple of new sessions on the schedule. One of them is an idea a couple of us have been pushing for a few years: lightning talks.
A staple of technical conferences, lightning talks are based on the notion that while 45-50 minutes presentations are good, sometimes you [...]
Over the weekend I was able to make some upgrades to Fumblerooski (the off-season being a good time for that), and to do so I took advantage of some of the new features in Django’s development version (with the 1.2 release being just around the corner).
(Yes, I know I shouldn’t be running beta software in [...]
Update: Simon has updated his library to make it easy to reverse the order of coordinates. Thanks!
For a “15-minute project“, Simon Willison’s geocoders library is pretty handy if you’re doing geocoding with Python. It offers a common interface to the geocoding services provided by Google, Yahoo and other sources. When we were looking at replacing [...]
