Jeremy Bowers

Login: jeremyjbowers

Company: The New York Times

Location: Washington, D.C.

Bio: Senior Editor, News Applications on the Interactive News desk @newsdev at The New York Times. Formerly at @nprapps, @washingtonpost and the Tampa Bay Times.

Blog: https://jeremybowers.com/

Blog: https://jeremybowers.com/

Member of

1. For Journalism
2. IRE/NICAR
3. North by Northwestern
4. NYT Newsroom Developers
5. The New York Times
6. The Upshot

Repositories

4thdownbot-model

The model behind @NYT4thDownBot

538model

538 Election Forecasting Model

airscript-engine

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AListApart

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annotorious

Image Annotation for the Web - Annotorious Core Library

awesome-news-hacks

List of open source code projects by journalists for journalists. Part of Hack Swap session at NICAR 2017.

backbone-tastypie

A small compatibility layer to make backbone.js and django-tastypie work together happily.

ballot-tally

Election Results via AP Elections API - ?

barbecast

A nice flat HTML site for the CFBB guys.

baseball-projection-schematics

Rewrite and normalize baseball player projections

bash-it

A community bash framework.

beeswithmachineguns

A utility for arming (creating) many bees (micro EC2 instances) to attack (load test) targets (web applications).

binify

A command-line tool to better visualize crowded dot density maps.

bootstrap-wysiwyg

Tiny bootstrap-compatible WISWYG rich text editor

breakpoints

Trigger jQuery events for your responsive design breakpoints!

butterfield

A Python Slack bot framework using asyncio and Slack's Real Time Messaging API

can-i-vote

A simple SMS and Web app for determining if a voter is allowed to vote.

cfbreference_com

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Chartbuilder

PolitiFact's fork of NPR Visuals' fork of Quartz' Chartbuilder tool

chart-doctor

Sample files to accompany the FT's Chart Doctor column

chattify

A local chat server and client in an npm module.

citizen-quotes

A project to demonstrate maximum entropy models for extracting quotes from news articles in Python.

clarify

Discover and parse results for jurisdictions that use Clarity-based election systems.

confbuddy

Save money on conferences by sharing hotel costs

congress-legislators

Members of the United States Congress, 1789-Present, in YAML, as well as committees and presidents.

core

Core repo for election results data acquisition, transformation and output.

countwords

Want a word cloud? I hate you.

courtcast

A podcast for the Supreme Court's oral arguments audio.

CourtCast-1

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csvdedupe

Command line tool for deduplicating CSV files

decapitated-animals-data

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dictdiffer

Dictdiffer is a helper module that helps you to diff and patch dictionaries.

django-autocomplete

The Washington Post's app for creating admin foreign key autocompletion fields.

django-axes

Keep track of failed login attempts in Django-powered sites.

django-c10k-demo

10 000 concurrent real-time connections to Django

django-calaccess-raw-data

A Django app to download, extract and load campaign finance and lobbying activity data from the California Secretary of State's CAL-ACCESS database

django-cbir

A django-based project for storing and analyzing Community Budget Issue Requests from the Florida House.

django-chroniker

Easily control cron jobs through Django's admin.

django-constituent

A django-based representative locator for constituents.

django-extractor

A simple project for extracting and visualizing meaning from articles.

django-gastronome

Django-Gastronome is a series of lightweight apps to take the typical food blog to the next (data) level.

django-improv

Fingerpaint with your data.

django-medusa

A super simple "static site generator" Django app.

django-mongolier

A lightweight wrapper for using django with MongoDB (pymongo)

django-preps

A handy template for building a django prep sports site.

django-project-template

A custom template for initializing a new Django project the Data Desk way

django-pyodbc

A forked django-pyodbc to solve problems with MSSQL imports at the Post.

django-rolodex

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django-scrivo

Building myself a better, simpler blog engine

django-tastypie

Creating delicious APIs for Django apps since 2010. v0.12.0

django-userena

Accounts for Django made beautifully simple

dotfiles

Personalized settings for Terminal, Git, Sublime Text, etc.

dotfiles-1

.files, including ~/.osx ? sensible hacker defaults for OS X

dw-nominate

A Python parser for DW-NOMINATE data.

eplfantasy

An EPL Fantasy decision engine.

exoskeleton

Repository for a SRCCON session about exoskeletons for reporters.

fbb17

Fantasy baseball 2017 preparations.

fec_results

Federal election results data from the Federal Election Commission

fec-standardizer

An experiment to standardize individual donor names in campaign finance data using simple graph theory and machine learning.

ffs

Schemas to convert common fixed-width file formats into CSV using in2csv.

fizzbuzz

a solution to the classic programming puzzle

fj-django

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flask-peewee

flask integration for peewee, including admin, authentication, rest api and more

flask-sockets

Elegant WebSockets for your Flask apps.

flatland

Flatland is a simple theme and accompanying color scheme for Sublime Text 2.

flatstrap

bootstrap without all the extra stuff

flight

A lightweight, component-based JavaScript framework

fourscore

An open-source version of the WNYC sentiment tracker.

gekyll

Gekyll is a [Jekyll](https://github.com/mojombo/jekyll/) plugin that lets you use Git repositories as posts, giving you access to a post's commits, diffs, and more.

genderator

A Python library to determine gender based on first name, with i18n support.

gifs

Storage place for all the gifs.

git-for-journalists

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gloss

For #SNDMakes

gotraining

Hardcore Go Training Class Material :

haystax

Haystax provides a simple, easy way for non-technical people to extract tabular data from Web pages. Based on Mozilla's Hackaraurus tool.

hebel

GPU-Accelerated Deep Learning Library in Python

herokal-settings

Make your django local_settings play nice with Heroku and Foreman

heroku-buildpack-geodjango

Python buildpack fork for GeoDjango

homers

every home run

ievms

Automated installation of the Microsoft IE App Compat virtual machines

iframe

WordPress plugin which adds shortcode to output iframe.

introbot

A python script to generate the text of intro e-mails.

ironzebra

Source code for the IronZebra.com site, written in Golang

jeremybowers.com

My worthless web site

jeremyjbowers

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joblint

Test tech job specs for issues with sexism, culture, expectations, and recruiter fails.

journalism-syllabi

Syllabuses and URLs for computational, data, and investigative journalism courses

jquery-geocodify

Autocomplete for address searches

klaxon

Klaxon enables reporters and editors to monitor scores of sites and files on the web for newsworthy changes.

laziestloader

A responsive-aware jQuery plugin to smartly lazy load images and other elements.

LearningPython

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leo-senate-model

Code and data for The Upshot's Senate model.

lit

a little preprocessor for literate programming

madcrime

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Main

My first repository.

mapshaper

An updated version of the original MapShaper tool.

medium-editor

Medium.com WYSIWYG editor clone.

milbdb

A Python project to extract, transform, and load MiLB data into a PostgreSQL 9.4 database.

mister-plow

Need a plow during #snowquester? Mister Plow is charting all of the snowplows in DC.

mlbam-utils

mlbam download helper, more

mlb_terminal

A terminal interface for streaming real-time updates for MLB games

mm

Python powered spreadsheets

MPJO-779-01-FALL2014

Web development for media, Fall 2014

MPJO-779-01-FALL2015

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msg-extractor

Extracts emails and attachments saved in Microsoft Outlook's .msg files

mvp

Most Viewed (at) WashingtonPost.com

nba_py

Python Facing API for nbastats.com

nerdscore

An analysis of FanGraph's NERD score.

NewsBlur

NewsBlur is a personal news reader that brings people together to talk about the world. A new sound of an old instrument.

newsdiffs

Automatic scraper that tracks changes in news articles over time.

nflgame

An API to retrieve and read NFL Game Center JSON data. It can work with real-time data, which can be used for fantasy football.

nfl-stats

A suite of tools for getting NFL team, player and game data, as well as real-time statistics.

ngx_mongo

Non-blocking upstream module for Nginx to connect to MongoDB

nicar2016

Materials for NICAR 2016

nigel

A simple collection of shell scripts that speak information to you on Mac OS X. Think IronMan's Jarvis in super alpha without the cool Minority Report stuff.

NLP-in-Python

Intro to some NLP concepts in Python for a class

nomz

Django recipe "book"

oboe.js

A fresh approach to AJAX that speeds up web applications. Progressive JSON parser with an easy interface so you can use the objects before the http response completes.

ona13game

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ona14-scorecard

A real-time scorecard project for ONA14 sessions.

ONA2011-Apps-Notes

Notes from the ONA 2011 news applications panel

opened-captions

A SocketIO API for live TV closed captions

orcrime

A project to scrape and display crime data reported to campus police at the University of Oregon.

orinspections

Restaurant inspections for Lane County, OR

panda

PANDA: A Newsroom Data Appliance

panopticon

You can see basically everything, much like the NSA.

paper_fec

Parse the OCR'ed paper FEC filings (as well as the electronic ones)

pastpages.org

The news homepage archive

pattern

Web mining module for Python

pdfminer

Python PDF Parser

pdftable

A fork of pdftable library, unmaintained since 2009.

pdftables

A library for extracting tables from PDF files

pdftools

scripts I tend to use to remove text from PDFs

peewee

a small orm, with support for postgresql, mysql and sqlite

phantompy

Phantompy is a headless WebKit engine with full clean pythonic api build on top of Qt5 Webkit

pickadate.js

lightweight jquery date selector

plumbook

Data from the Plum Book, published by the GPO every 4 years

Pokemon_Go_API

Pokémon GO API in Python

politicsverbatim

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polling-place

General-purpose AJAX/long-polling library

pool

An application for managing the White House Press Association's pool for seats.

popcorn-js

The HTML5 Media Framework

powerline-bash

Powerline for Bash/ZSH

presidential-nouns

Nouns of assemblage for US presidents.

price-of-weed

Scrapes average price of weed across the country

pushpin

HTTP reverse proxy that supports streaming and long-polling

pyopenfec

A Python wrapper for the OpenFEC API.

PyPhox

Python tools for working with the Phoenix event dataset.

pypitches

Loading and plotting MLB PITCHf/x data using Python

python-chicago-elections

Parser/scraper for election results from the Chicago Board of Elections website

python-elections

A Python wrapper for the Associated Press' U.S. election data service.

python-streamtools

A python wrapper for streamtools (http://nytlabs.github.io/streamtools)

rdio-history

A simple library for fetching your Rdio listening history

refactoring101

Tutorial on transforming a complex, linear Python script into a modular, easier-to-maintain application.

roundbracket

A Round NCAA bracket

RUDEBOT

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s3-publisher

Push data to S3 for the world to see

sandman

Sandman "makes things REST".

scotus

I scotus, you scotus, we scotus.

scotus-predict

Supreme Court prediction project

scotus-servo

Watching the SCOTUS

scout

An app for scraping, storing and regurgitating MLB HOF's scouting reports.

scraperotus

A scraper for Supreme Court opinions

scrobMaster

Master your scroll events.

server-confs

Server configuration files

slanger

Open Pusher implementation compatible with Pusher libraries

slmpd

A scraper for slmpd.org

soundbites

A sliceable menu application based on NPR's SoundBites Cafe menu.

sovereign

A set of Ansible playbooks to build and maintain your own private cloud: email, calendar, contacts, file sync, IRC bouncer, VPN, and more.

spark

?????? in your shell.

stabile

Computer-Assisted Reporting class, Stabile investigative reporting program, Spring 2014

stanford-corenlp-python

Python wrapper for Stanford CoreNLP tools

stately

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stocker

Manage environment variables securely.

streamparse

streamparse lets you run Python code against real-time streams of data. Integrates with Apache Storm.

tablesort

A dependency free sorting component for tables

tablestruct

tablestruct creates mappings between Go structs and database tables.

tabula

Tabula is a tool for liberating data tables trapped inside PDF files

tabula-extractor

Extract tables from PDF files

tacofancy

community-driven taco repo. stars stars stars.

Turntable-API

Allow you to create bots for turntable.fm

ubuntu-mono-powerline

Ubuntu Mono fonts patched for the "Powerline" vim plugin: https://github.com/Lokaltog/vim-powerline/ (Just don't trust me leaving it here forever: download, fork whathever)

ulmg

The ULMG site

uwebsocketconnection

an attempt to run websockets over uwsgi http router using gevent or uGreen

vagrant-digitalocean

A rough sketch of a Vagrant Digital Ocean provider

vault

Generates safe passwords so you never need to remember them

vega

A visualization grammar.

web-page-archiver

Ruby gem that saves web pages in one single page

XKCD-password-generator

Generate passwords with high entropy

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