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palewire

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About palewire

https://palewi.re/who-is-ben-welsh/

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    Comment #48266139

    The site includes a CSV of everything I found. You could hand that to Claude Code and ask it to pull down the WARCs

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    Comment #48266132

    Please give archive.org all the credit

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    Comment #48266126

    I fixed that: https://fivethirtyeightindex.com/graphics/ https://fivethirtyeightindex.com/illustrations/

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    Comment #48266123

    FWIW, the site now indexes 13,000 graphics and 3,000 illustrations, which I clawed out of the Wayback Machine's HTML and preserved separately in an archive.org collection. https://…

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    Comment #46505387

    Thanks. I'm glad you found it interesting!

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    Comment #46504403

    Today I'm happy to release "First Basemap," a free tutorial that shares one of our most valuable recent innovations at Reuters. It's at https://palewi.re/docs/first-basemap/ Follow…

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    Comment #43115390

    I edited this poll for Reuters, which was released today with this story. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/americans-worry-musks-campa... If you have any questions or critique, let…

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    The 392 news organizations listed at this URL have instructed OpenAI’s GPTBot to not scan their sites, according to a continual survey of 1,119 online publishers conducted by the h…

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    Comment #16603225

    There's a state database compiled by CHP called SWITRS that tracks traffic accidents. You can find it here. http://iswitrs.chp.ca.gov/Reports/jsp/userLogin.jsp We don't call it out…

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    Thanks! If you're a Python person, I'd love to hear what you think of how I structured the notebook. There isn't a set style for writing these and I've been experimenting with diff…

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    Comment #16602481

    I appreciate your effort to bring some context to the analysis. However, as we unpack in the story, our total is likely an undercount due to the problems in tracking street racing …

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    Comment #16602134

    I worked on the data analysis for this story, which was published at a Jupyter Notebook of Python code. https://github.com/datadesk/street-racing-analysis/blob/mast... If you have …

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    Comment #16232991

    I'm the author of this post. Glad to see it's been submitted here. If you have any questions, please fire away.

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    Comment #15176465

    Thanks for the tip. This is something I was unaware of.

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    Comment #15176077

    I hadn't considered that. It only accepts CSVs, not Excel files, right now. If you can provide an example of a dangerous file we can try testing against it.

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    Comment #14921904

    I'm one of the organizers of the California Civic Data Coalition and this event. If you have any questions about our work, or the state of California's crippled database tracking m…

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