Projects
FECElecFilings
These scripts download lists of electronic filings from the Federal Election Commission based on several criteria and output pipe-delimited text files suitable for importing into a database.
FECNewsRSS
A Python script that scrapes the Federal Election Commission’s Website to retrieve information from news releases and creates an RSS feed from them.
IRE/NICAR Presentations
A collection of handouts and writings about campaign finance and computer-assisted reporting from various IRE and NICAR events and publications.
SLA Presentations
A collection of handouts and writings from the 2004 Special Libraries Association conference.
Who Posts to NICAR-L?
Pretty much done on a lark, this analysis of postings to NICAR-L in October 2003 and updated in May 2004 generated interest and amusement on the list. It’s also an example of the usefulness of curl and regular expressions.