World Government Data
Blog de Simon Willison Posted on January 27, 2010
World Government Data. Launched last week, this is the Guardian’s meta-search engine for searching and browsing through data from four different government data sites (with more sites planned). Under the hood it’s Django, Solr, Haystack and the Scrapy crawling library. The application was built by Ben Firshman during an internship over Christmas.
Crowdsourced document analysis and MP expenses
Blog de Simon Willison Posted on December 20, 2009
As you may have heard, the UK government released a fresh batch of MP expenses documents a week ago on Thursday. I spent that week working with a small team at Guardian HQ to prepare for the release. Here’s what we built:
http://mps-expenses2.guardian.co.uk/
It’s a crowdsourcing application that asks the public to help us ...
Guardian iPhone app
Blog de Simon Willison Posted on December 14, 2009
Guardian iPhone app. Released today, ad-free, £2.39 for the application, has an excellent offline mode. I helped build the backend web service, which is a Django app running on EC2.
Investigate your MP's expenses
Blog de Simon Willison Posted on June 19, 2009
Investigate your MP’s expenses. Launched today, this is the project that has been keeping me ultra-busy for the past week—we’re crowdsourcing the analysis of the 700,000+ scanned MP expenses documents released this morning. It’s the Guardian’s first live Django-powered application, and the first time we’ve hosted something on EC2.
Investigate your MP's expenses
Blog de Simon Willison Posted on June 19, 2009
Investigate your MP’s expenses. Launched today, this is the project that has been keeping me ultra-busy for the past week—we’re crowdsourcing the analysis of the 700,000+ scanned MP expenses documents released this morning. It’s the Guardian’s first live Django-powered application, and also the first time we’ve hosted something on EC2.