Chase Davis

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

nicar2015. Materials for NICAR 2015

nicar2013. Various documents and code examples for NICAR 2013 presentations.

data-journalism-ignite. Slides and supporting material for Chase's data journalism ignite talk from NewsFoo 2012.

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

lambda-screenshot. A simple working example of an AWS Lambda screenshotting service using Node and PhantomJS.

car-datascience-toolkit. Simple implementations of data science tools for use by newspaper reporters.

pairwise-mapreduce. Implementation of a pairwise document similarity algorithm using MapReduce.

nicar2016. Materials for NICAR 2016

j4462. Class materials, handouts and examples for J4462/7462 (Advanced Data Journalism) at the University of Missouri, Spring 2013 semester.

nicar2014. Various documents and code examples for NICAR 2014 presentations.

advanced-data-journalism. Course materials for Advanced Data Journalism, fall 2019

django-littlebro. Simple django application for asynchronous tracking of events.

copycat-finder. An experiment in finding copycat legislation across multiple states.

multi-index-lsh. An exercise trying to implement fast locality-sensive hashing searches in Hamming space

crime-j4462. The crime app we're working on for J4462 (Cheat sheet!)

ML_for_Hackers. Code accompanying the book "Machine Learning for Hackers"

advanced-data-journalism-jailscrape. Python

quotex-simple. A stripped-down version of my old quote extraction experiment.

goes16-eboni. Using GOES-16 bands to show the movement of Winter Storm Eboni in December 2018.

mizzou-newsapp. News app for the Nov. 9-11 training at Mizzou.

nicar18-local-news. HTML

pacstd. PAC Standard: An experiment in cleaning up dirty company names using metric trees