Basile Simon basilesimon

Freelance coder-journalist. Presently Starling Lab at Stanford / USC. Formerly Reuters, The Times, BBC, City University London, Airwars. 🇫🇷 in 🇩🇪

basilesimon / index.html

Created March 16, 2014 22:17

Popcorn Chain videos

	<!DOCTYPE html>
	<html>
	<head>
	<title>test popcorn player</title>
	<meta charset="utf-8">
	<script src="http://cdn.popcornjs.org/code/dist/popcorn-complete.js"></script>
	<script src="https://raw.github.com/rwaldron/popcorn.sequence/master/popcorn.sequence.js"></script>
	<script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-2.1.0.js"></script>
	<!-- <script src="popcorn-chain.js"></script> -->
	<!-- <script src="script1.js"></script> -->

basilesimon / scrape.js

Created April 16, 2014 19:20 — forked from ashleydw/scrape.js

	var urls = ['put', 'your', 'page', 'urls', 'here'];

	page.onConsoleMessage = function (msg) {
	if(msg.indexOf('SCRAPE-RESULT:') >= 0) {

	var fn = 'file_name_to_write_to.txt';
	console.log('writing file', fn)
	fs.write(fn, msg.replace('SCRAPE-RESULT:', ''), 'w');

	}

basilesimon / gist:bfe8cf74adde164ac437

Created May 14, 2014 20:01

Pancarte player syntax

	// timecode is the points we got during the recording
	// video is the video
	var events = {
	{
	time: 4.0,
	f: function() {
	alert("We are at 4.0 in the video, and this fires.");
	}
	}, {
	time: 8.0,

basilesimon / index.html

Created May 21, 2014 17:28

Line chart with d3.js step 1

	<!DOCTYPE html>
	<html>
	<head>
	<title>Business quote demo</title>
	<meta charset="utf-8">
	<script src="http://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.8.2/jquery.min.js"></script>
	<script type="text/javascript" src="d3.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
	<style>
	body {
	font: 12px sans-serif;

basilesimon / base.json

Created June 13, 2014 12:41

What I've got

	[
	{
	"cooccurrences": [
	{
	"label": "one",
	"occurrence": "100",
	"thing": "http://dbpedia.org/resource/Alex_Salmond"
	},
	{
	"label": "linkedWithOne",

basilesimon / result.json

Created June 13, 2014 12:42

What I need

basilesimon / collection.json

Created July 25, 2014 14:59

Police.uk API Postman collection

basilesimon / data.json

Created August 29, 2014 17:30

GPS boundaries of London boroughs

basilesimon / listofpolys.json

Last active August 29, 2015 14:06

Datastringer example: Greater London crime stats

basilesimon / test.py

Created January 13, 2015 21:00

THE SOLUTION

	from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
	from urllib2 import urlopen

	BASE_URL = "http://www.chicagoreader.com"

	def make_soup(url):
	html = urlopen(url).read()
	return BeautifulSoup(html, "lxml")

	def get_category_links(section_url):