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2018-05-10 (Thursday)

Writing

  1. Exploring City of London Councillors data

    I scraped data about the City of London’s councillors, and their interests and gifts, and made a site to browse and search it using Datasette.

Links

  1. Travel on paper

    Lots of nice old transport and holiday posters for sale. (via Things Magazine)

Tweets

  • philgyford’s avatar

    @blech It’s odd, some non-square images were definitely showing OK, but it seems some non-square images are the wrong kind of non-square.

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    @gwire Simply create a life full of meaning and purpose.

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    You could try googling a bit harder Phil? discussions.apple.com/thread/8339815

  • philgyford’s avatar

    Anyone had this in iTunes? in Album view, some albums display no artwork even though all tracks on the album have artwork. They used to show up OK… odd.

  • philgyford’s avatar

    @oddtype @tomskitomski @BBCArchive @bbcmusic Yes, that would be very good…

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    @BillEllson Oh, of course, thanks! I shall correct it shortly.

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    I wrote about scraping the City of London’s councillors data to make a site that lets you search their interests and gifts, among other things:
    gyford.com/phil/writing/2…

    Here’s the site, if you missed it yesterday: city-of-london-councillors.now.sh

  • philgyford’s avatar

    @dracos @tomskitomski Yes, needs! This kind of thing feels like an increasingly rare gap on the web, and I hate those gaps. Not sure I hate this one enough to do anything about it though :)