Name: Dan Nguyen
Type: User
Company: Freelancer, data wrangler/engineer
Bio: My name is Dan Nguyen and you can find me on Github as dannguyen & @dancow on Twitter. My interests are investigative journalism, data wrangling, and naming thi
Twitter: dancow
Location: Chicago
Blog: http://danwin.com
Dan Nguyen's Projects
just do it
playing around with chef and knife-solo and ec2
gpt-2 training, on tweets and whatever, based off of https://github.com/minimaxir/gpt-2-simple
Just testing things out
My own middlemanatee
Going through Jason Brownlee's "Clever Algorithms: Nature-Inspired Programming Recipes" http://cleveralgorithms.com/nature-inspired/stochastic/random_search.html
A listing of conferences relelvant to the news-developer-program-journalist-hacker
Datas from the Newsie Dev side
Some scripts/data description for NHTSA complaint data
Intro to git and github for journalists
NICAR 2019 workshop on using Python and PDFplumber to extract text from PDFs
The lesson and source files for Dan Nguyen's NICAR 2012 lesson on Google Refine
NICAR '14 App template demo
URL metadata tool
A tool for transcribing audio with Watson's speech to text API
A wrapper around number_to_human
Examples of GIS with New York data and CartoDB
nypd traffic crash data has a booboo. this eases the pain.
wrangling the multi-year nypd stop and frisk data with SQL and stuff
A repo containing wrangled data from the NYPD's stop-and-frisk database and 7 Major Felonies dataset
List of New York Times wedding announcements used in an Upshot story on name-changing.
Octopress is an obsessively designed framework for Jekyll blogging. Itβs easy to configure and easy to deploy. Sweet huh?
Using R's ggplot2 and rgdal to examine earthquake activity in Oklahoma
todomvc based opal example
Entry point into Openelections project status and data
Google's Operations Research tools
PADJO 2017 SQL Exam - Now with extra election and disbursement data!