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dannguyen / bash-wikipedia-pageviews.md

Last active September 12, 2018 20:19

Bash function to read Wikipedia Pageviews API and pass it into Google Static Charts API to get 120-day time series of pageviews

An example in Bash of how to use Wikipedia's newly-announced Pageviews API and pass it into Google's hopefully-eternally-functioning Static Charts API. The result is a a quick time-series chart that visualizes 120 days of pageviews for any given Wikipedia page. Shout-out to the awesome jq command-line JSON tool.

The charts are crudely labeled...with a little more work you could turn it into a more interesting comparison chart (i.e. a grouped bar chart). But for now, here's what the last 120 days of page visits look like for Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton

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scotthmurray / DataJournalismJobs.md

Last active July 13, 2019 18:19

Ideas for where to post and publicize open data journalism positions

Where to Post your Data Journalism Jobs

Update: This has moved. An updated and maintained version is here: http://alignedleft.com/resources/data-vis-jobs

I posed this question on Twitter:

If you wanted to hire a “data journalist” to support an existing reporting team with data parsing + vis, how would you find that person?

I've documented the responses here. Basically, there seems to be only one job site specifically for data journalists (so far!), and several others, depending on which audience you want to reach (e.g., more focused on development, data vis, or journalism).