http://simonwillison.net/2019-05-30T04:35:42+00:00Simon Willison2019-05-30T04:35:42+00:002019-05-30T04:35:42+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2019/May/30/los-angeles-weedmaps-analysis/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/datadesk/la-weedmaps-analysis/blob/master/notebook.ipynb">Los Angeles Weedmaps analysis</a></strong></p> Ben Welsh at the LA Times published this Jupyter notebook showing the full working behind a story they published about LA’s black market weed dispensaries. I picked up several useful tricks from it—including how to load points into a geopandas GeoDataFrame (in epsg:4326 aka WGS 84) and how to then join that against the LA Times neighborhoods GeoJSON boundaries file. <p><small></small>Via <a href="https://twitter.com/palewire/status/1133723284116086784">Ben Welsh</a></small></p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/data-journalism">data-journalism</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/geospatial">geospatial</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/latimes">latimes</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/pandas">pandas</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/jupyter">jupyter</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ben-welsh">ben-welsh</a></p>

2009-01-21T17:19:30+00:002009-01-21T17:19:30+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2009/Jan/21/poynter/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=52&amp;aid=150818">Train Crash Leads LA Times to Create Django Database on Deadline</a></strong></p> A story from last September. I didn’t know the LA Times used Django. UPDATE: Yes I did, I introduced their panel about it at DjangoCon. Sorry, mind like a sieve sometimes. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/data-journalism">data-journalism</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/django">django</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/latimes">latimes</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/newspapers">newspapers</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/python">python</a></p>