I wrote about some of my favourite datasets here. Then I found some more. Here’s a dataset of Nixon’s White House tapes. I’m not saying I’ve already marked off a day in calendar to go through this, but no one try to contact me on February 12th. You can find…

I’m not going to go into the importance of technology in civic participation. It’s important and it’s useful. I’m assuming anyone who was skeptical before has clicked those links and is now fully on board and can’t wait to work on a bunch of projects that are becoming more and more essential (by the minute, even) in ensuring an open and transparent government. Here’s a few good places to start: Kate Rabinowitz has created a fantastic repository on projects that are working to code against the current administration in the U.S.

Here’s a list of cheatsheets that have become absolutely indispensable over the past few months: Regular expressions in Python: I’m only just starting to get what regular expressions do, and this cheat sheet has been incredibly useful along the way. Pandas cheatsheet: I think I may love Pandas slightly more…

Over the past few weeks, I’ve been trying to hoard as many cool datasets as humanly possible (if knowledge is power, filling my hard drive with as many CSV files as possible is going to make me supreme leader of something.) Here’s a shortlist of my favourites: (Quick caveat, a…

Let me start this off with the obvious: data is one of the most important things you can have. It’s pretty much essential to making well-informed decisions, it helps give you a better picture of what outcomes your decisions could lead you to, and it’s pretty great to have facts…