The Scoop

For more details on Represent, see our post on the NYT’s Open blog. Today (well, technically last night) at work we launched a beta Web application called Represent that helps New York City residents keep tabs on what their elected officials are doing. It’s the product of an idea that my colleague Andrei Scheinkman suggested [...]

Since I started using Ruby and Rails last year, I’ve come to know and like Capistrano, the deployment utility that makes pushing code and databases around a lot easier than it has to be. We use Capistrano for internal and external deploys at the Times, and it’s a pretty robust tool. While working on Fumblerooski [...]

Until I finish setting up a blog on Fumblerooski, here’s another update on the site’s development: I’ve added team and player statistics for games in 2006, 2007 and 2008 (example), and will build out individual game stats back to 2001 (example). I’ve fixed several outstanding data issues, including bowl games, overtime games and at the [...]

Some additions to Fumblerooski, as work continues: Yearly rosters for teams (example). Thanks to the NCAA for this stuff, which goes back to 2000. Player pages (example). These are a little odd in that they represent a player on a team for a single year, so they have links to other seasons for that player. [...]

One of my tasks this summer was to learn a bit more about the GIS branch of Django, which is now in trunk as a contrib app thanks to the hard work of Justin Bronn, Travis Pinney and Co. Although there are many folks in the CAR community who are quite proficient at mapping technologies, [...]