2018-05-10 (Thursday)
Writing
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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
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Travel on paper
Lots of nice old transport and holiday posters for sale. (via Things Magazine)
Tweets
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@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
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@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:
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Here’s the site, if you missed it yesterday: city-of-london-councillors.now.sh
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@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 :)