Dan Nguyen, a developer/journalist for ProPublica, the non-profit investigative news organisation, has shared four tutorials that would:
…guide the non-coding-but-computer-savvy journalist through enough programming fundamentals so that he/she could write a web scraper to collect data from public websites.
The not-for-profit news site ProPublica has appointed three more journalists to its ranks, completing its initial round of staffing.
Former LA Times staff writer T. Christian Miller joins the organisation as reporter, while Dan Nguyen, a reporter/web developer for the Sacramento Bee, becomes web producer.
Lisa Schwartz, previously an ABC News staffer and freelance researcher, has been named research director and completes the site’s aim to have 24 full-time reporters and editors.
Interns with the site Benjamin Protess and Sharona Coutts have also be named as fellows, a release from ProPublica said.