Discover datadesk/baker Open Source project

The Los Angeles Times' open-source archive of California coronavirus data

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california-coronavirus-data

Download U.S. census data and reformat it for humans

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census-data-downloader

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

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python-elections

A tutorial on how to build VR interactives using DEM data and Three.js

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vr-interactives-three-js

So you've gone through a Django tutorial or two, maybe even built an app, and want to know how to use it for your reporting.

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django-for-data-analysis-nicar-2016

Use Natural Earth and OpenStreetMap data to export an image or a vector file.

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web-map-maker

Precinct-level results for the 2016 general election in California

california-2016-election-precinct-maps

Some simple math we use to do journalism.

latimes-calculate

Publish spreadsheets as interactive tables. And do it on deadline.

latimes-table-stacker

Autocomplete for address searches

jquery-geocodify

A Los Angeles Times analysis of Every shot in Kobe Bryant's NBA career

kobe-every-shot-ever

A deprecated Python wrapper for the DocumentCloud API

python-documentcloud

All of our code examples and tutorials

tutorials

A Los Angeles Times analysis of serious assaults misclassified by LAPD

lapd-crime-classification-analysis

Tool for generating map images from Mapbox tiles

print-map-maker

A Los Angeles Times analysis of arrests of the homeless by the LAPD

homeless-arrests-analysis

The open-source web scrapers that feed the Los Angeles Times California coronavirus tracker.

california-coronavirus-scrapers

A Los Angeles Times analysis of crop worker pay in California

california-crop-production-wages-analysis

Combine U.S. census data responsibly

census-data-aggregator

A template for a muted base layer about Southern California.

osm-quiet-la

Convert a shapefile into an SVG you can use with JavaScript libraries

django-shp2svg

A Python library for hyphenating HTML in your Django project

django-softhyphen

Easily download U.S. census maps

census-map-downloader

Bootstrap a Google App Engine project with Django and other goodies.

latimes-appengine-template

Download wildfire hotspots detected by NASA satellites and the Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS)

nasa-wildfires

Code examples and tutorial on getting data out of OpenStreetMap

overpass-turbo-tutorial

census-map-consolidator

Combine Census blocks into new shapes

A simple Slack message text formatting to HTML code converter.

slackdown

A Python library that standardizes the names of U.S. states

latimes-statestyle

A branch of the original, with a touch of Leaflet

timemap

The open-source engine that powers bigbuilder, the Los Angeles Times Data Desk's system for publishing standalone pages

django-bigbuild

An example of how to join point to polygon data with geopandas and Python

geopandas-spatial-join-example

A Los Angeles Times analysis of street racing fatalities in L.A. County

street-racing-analysis

A Los Angeles Times analysis of California's costly power glut

california-electricity-capacity-analysis

A fork of the geocoding library geopy. Returns accuracy scores. Allows viewport biasing.

latimes-mappingla-geopy

A demonstration of how to build and publish pages with the baker build tool

baker-example-page-template

SCSS

census-error-analyzer

Analyze the margin of error in U.S. census data

Simple maps of California's 58 counties

california-topojson-atlas

Corporations and limited-liability companies registered with the California Secretary of State.

california-business-entities

Shell

los-angeles-police-killings-data

The Los Angeles Times' database of people killed by local police in Los Angeles County.

california-fire-zone-analysis

A Los Angeles Times analysis of California buildings within fire hazard zones

How to use the Altair data visualization library to create an array of area charts.

altair-area-examples

A Python wrapper for accessing the Mapping L.A. Boundaries API.

latimes-mappingla-api

Copyboy is our fork of GitHub's Campfire bot, hubot. He is aware of all Internet traditions.

copyboy

CoffeeScript

star-wars-analysis

A Los Angeles Times analysis of the dialogue spoken in Star Wars episodes 1-8

django-project-template

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

A pluggable GeoDjango app with the boundaries of United States counties.

latimes-pluggablemaps-uscounties

Download wildfires data from the National Interagency Fire Center

nifc-wildfires

A Los Angeles Times analysis of water usage after the state eased drought restrictions

california-ccscore-analysis

Download wildfire incidents data from InciWeb

inciweb-wildfires

Download wildfires data from NOAA satellites

noaa-wildfires

A Los Angeles Times theme for Python's Altair statistical visualization library

altair-latimes

A Los Angeles Times analysis found that LAPD officers search blacks and Latinos far more often than whites during traffic stops even though whites are more likely to be found with illegal items.

ripa-analysis

Download watch, warning and advisory data from the National Weather Service

nws-wwa

Geospatial data from L.A. Metro's public transportation system

lametro-maps

slack-buttons-example

A Flask app to document and test Slack's interactive messages.

Scrape posts from Deadspin

deadspin-scraper

Analyzing a Los Angeles city council proposal aiming to limit where homeless people can sleep

homeless-sleeping-restrictions

The Los Angeles Times analysis of temporary visas granted to foreign agricultural workers

california-h2a-visas-analysis

Use DocumentCloud to publish PDFs for humans.

latimes-document-stacker

A Los Angeles Times analysis of helicopter accident rates

helicopter-accident-analysis

jQuery Waypoints extension that rotates through an array of images as you scroll down the page

jquery-scroll-slideshow

A template for a black base layer about Southern California

osm-silent-la

CartoCSS

congress-headshots

Almost all active congress members' photos

Download wildfires data from CalFire

calfire-wildfires

Analysis of every fire in California's wine country since 1950

wine-country-fires

Parses election results data published online by the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk

la-election-night

A Los Angeles Times geospatial analysis of Houston homes after Hurricane Harvey

houston-flood-zone-analysis

The voice of the Los Angeles Times Data Desk

lat-soundsystem

Geospatial data of trails managed or planned by the Los Angeles County Department of Parks and Recreation

la-county-trail-maps

construction-jobs-analysis

A Los Angeles Times analysis of the demographics and pay of construction workers

Automagically shareificates divs to Facebook and Twitter buttons.

jquery-shareify

A pluggable GeoDjango app with the boundaries of all states in the United States of America. Geography, loosely coupled.

latimes-pluggablemaps-usstates

How to use geopandas' overlay method to find the area of intersections between two datasets.

geopandas-intersection-area-example

An experiment in creating precinct-level election results maps using Python's Altair library

altair-election-maps-example

A periodically updated archive of financial data published by the city of Los Angeles' Checkbook LA data portal

checkbook-la-watchdog

A statistical analysis of excess deaths attributable to extreme heat in California's most populous counties

extreme-heat-excess-deaths-analysis

A Los Angeles Times analysis of well completion, groundwater levels, and water shortages in the San Joaquin Valley

groundwater-analysis

Generate static maps from an existing TileMill project.

tilemill-staticmaps

A simple Python wrapper for the L.A. Metro’s API for bus stops, routes and vehicles.

python-lametro-api

An example of how to use Python's geospatial tools to clip a shapefile of roads into segments using a polygon layer.

python-road-clipping-example

A Los Angeles Times analysis of vacant building complaints filed with L.A. city

la-vacant-building-complaints-analysis

The Los Angeles Times analysis of homicides near public high schools.

highschool-homicide-analysis

An analysis conducted for the May 29, 2019, Los Angeles Times story "Black market cannabis shops thrive in L.A. even as city cracks down."

la-weedmaps-analysis

A Los Angeles Times analysis of legal payouts by L.A. city

la-settlements-analysis

An open-source archive of Vice President Kamala Harris' public calendar

kamala-harris-schedules

pandas-squarify-example

How to use the squarify extension to matplotlib to visualize a pandas DataFrame as a treemap.

Download air quality index data from AirNow

air-quality-index

A simplified wrapper for Python's logging module

latimes-qiklog

The areas of school campuses at the Los Angeles Unified School District

lausd-school-campus-polygons

ferc-enforcement-analysis

A Los Angeles Times analysis of civil penalties issued by FERC

An example of a header image that changes based on the device's orientation and always fits to fill the full screen

responsive-fullscreen-header-example

An analysis of the colors and content of NYRB Classics book covers

nyrb-covers-analysis

Scripts to download and process California K12 data

california-k12-notebooks

Examples of how to use the python-censusbatchgeocoder library

python-censusbatchgeocoder-examples

A Los Angeles Times analysis of California kindergartens with the lowest vaccination rates

california-kindergarten-vaccination-analysis

Data files from the Los Angeles Times' Mapping L.A. project

mapping-la-data

native-american-census-analysis

An analysis conducted for the June 13, 2019, Los Angeles Times story "The 2020 census is coming. Will Native Americans be counted?"

A street-centric base layer for overlaying point data about Southern California

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osm-la-streets