Applications
A selection of my programming work, professional and open source. Everything was a team effort. I tried to pitch in.
PastPages
The news homepage archive. Updating hourly, it captures the shifting homepages of major media sites so they can be studied.
How fast in LAFD where you live?
A interactive map of 911 response times across the city of Los Angeles.
Mapping L.A.: Crime
With daily updates, readers can keep current on local crime and compare crime levels across more than 200 neighborhoods. When crimes rise sharply, the system delivers a crime alert.
Mapping L.A.: Neighborhoods
Maps and statistics for more than 200 neighborhoods within L.A. County. Mapping L.A. began in 2009 with publication of The Times’ map of 87 neighborhoods in the city of L.A., redrawn with the help of readers.
L.A. Mayoral Election Results
A map of every ballot cast stretching back to 2001.
2012 Election Results
A framework for publishing interactive maps plotting U.S. election returns as they were reported for state primaries and the general election—with a special focus on California.
python-elections
A Python wrapper for the Associated Press U.S. election data service open sourced by our team and now in use by a number of other newsrooms.
California’s War Dead
The Times’ collection of stories about California servicemembers who died during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
spreadsheets.latimes.com and Table Stacker
A framework for publishing interactive tables, and doing it on deadline. In use by The Times and open-sourced under the name Table Stacker.
documents.latimes.com
A framework for publishing tends of thousands of documents to the Times site via DocumentCloud. ranging from Ruben Salazar’s killing to the Bell scandal.
timelines.latimes.com
A newsroom tool for quickly publishing an interactive timeline that integrates a redesigned version of ProPublica's TimelineSetter with Django's administration panel and Amazon S3.
Hollywood Star Walk
The Times’ virtual tour puts readers on the streets of Hollywood to visit the nearly 2,400 stars on the Walk of Fame. Also available for iPhone.
Quiet L.A.
An open-source template for a muted base map about Southern California. Designed for overlaying loud data visualizations. Created with open data.
Django Bakery
A set of helpers for baking out your Django site as flat files.
jQuery Geocodify
A jQuery plug-in that provides autocomplete for address searches.
Calculate
A collection of simple math functions useful for doing journalism.
DocumentCloud API for Python
A simple python wrapper for the DocumentCloud API.
L.A. Metro API for Python
A simple Python wrapper for the L.A. Metro’s API for bus stops, routes and vehicles.
Django Soft Hyphen
Automates the hyphenation of text, allowing easy formatting of HTML in more bookish style.
Django YAMLField
A Django database field for storing YAML data.
Google's Geocoder for Python
A simple Python wrapper for version three of Google's geocoder API.
Google App Engine Template
Bootstrap a Google App Engine project with Django and other goodies.
Django Greeking
Tools for printing filler text in your Django templates, a technique from the days of hot type known as greeking.
Questionheds
Is it news?
copyboy
A fork of GitHub's Campfire bot, hubot, for IRC. He is aware of all Internet traditions.
BRING THE NEWS BACK!
Excellence in art / We must preserve that / We must improve that / Bring the news back / Balance the views that / truly inspire / Like when you was hired.
Kennedy Name Generator
Find your place in the Democratic Party's royal family.
iesaysno.com
For those special moments of denial, known to every web developer.
Random Oscars Ballot Generator
Roll the dice.
whogetsthegasface.com
gas·face, the noun
a stupid face directed towards someone you don't like
Return of the Mack: The Ringtone
You lied to me!