Thanks for flagging this confusion. It's helpful to hear how this is perceived. Short answer: The spreadsheet is, indeed, embedded in a broader context. (And has a pointer to that context in the "Notes" tab.) Slightly longer explanation in my main comment on this thread.
That's an interesting suggestion, thanks. Certainly worth looking into. In the meantime, you can consider the newsletter's landing page to be a canonical URL of sorts — it will always link to the structured archive: https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural
Hi, author/creator here. Very neat to see this on HN, thanks. The spreadsheet is a byproduct of the weekly newsletter I publish: https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural
The spreadsheet simply contains the text and links from each newsletter edition ... but in a tabular format. (One advantage to the newsletter over the spreadsheet: the links make a bit more sense, since they're associated with specific anchor text.) The "non-structured" archive of previous newsletters can be found here: https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/archive
I'm giving a talk on data journalism to journalists next week and I was already going to recommend they sign up for up for the newsletter. But I'm glad to be reminded how you track its content with a spreadsheet, which means I can mention you again when I talk about creative useful usecases for spreadsheets.
I've been using VisiData for about nine months now, and have found it to be tremendously useful. These days, it's typically the first first tool I reach for when examining/exploring a new dataset.
This is really great in helping me understand what I can do with it and how to do it.
The lightning talk is a really great sales pitch, but it's unclear how to actually replicate it. Another video of his, a recommended one after the lightning talk, again loses me a little and goes very fast. I could pause and try to understand... but it's not just about how to do it, but also about knowing that I should be looking to do certain things in the first place.
Your tutorial both gives a nice overview of what features exist, and explains very clearly how to do things. Thanks for taking the time!
Hi, Greg! Library author here. I'd be happy to add a configurable UserAgent. Perhaps the default would be a generic "waybackpack" but could be configurable to add contact info for the user. Does that sound about right? Prefer a different approach?
And, yep, the library is intentionally designed only to request one snapshot at a time.
waybackpack would be a great default; encouraging the actual user to add contact info would be better for you because we could complain to them instead of you :-)
It will be interesting to see how successful Buzzfeed is at maintaining both models -- a huge array of clickbait, low-quality, traffic-driving (and revenue driving, I'd venture) content, and also a investigative journalism unit doing this type of work.
If Buzzfeed is committed to this and has the financials to support it, I think they'll eventually win people over. Al Jazeera America never really had the time to establish itself as a respectable journalistic unit. Their recent report on Peyton Manning having HGH shipped to his house was met with a fair amount of skepticism, just based on what news outlet reported it. They folded their American division a week or two later. I'd guess the same thing will happen with people questioning Buzzfeed's reporting based solely on what Buzzfeed is generally associated with. But if they can persevere that and continue to produce quality investigative reporting like this, the mainstream will eventually have to accept them.
It is interesting that the BBC seems to have taken Buzzfeed to its heart.
You quite often hear Buzzfeed editors being interviewed on Radio 4 news shows, or indeed presenting shows in the same positions that have hitherto been reserved for newspaper journalists. This too, seems to be jointly credited as Buzzfeed/BBC.
"Headquartered in [BuzzFeed's] new San Francisco bureau, The Open Lab for Journalism Technology and the Arts will be dedicated to coming up with new tools and technology that will benefit reporting and journalism"
Agreed. The archive uses the first line of the newsletter as the summary. I've been using the same tagline as the first line. But, for future newsletters, I think I'll make the first line more descriptive. E.g., for the most recent: "Maternity leave, art collections, firearm dealers, New Guinea languages, and aircraft-wildlife strikes." Would that be an improvement?
