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
72 folders
Evaluating the performance and accuracy of ABBYY FineReader's OCR on Senate Financial Disclosure scanned forms
"How to Find Stories in Data" for the Associated Collegiate Press 2017 San Francisco Midwinter Convention
Pathfinding in the database
Relate a separate table of TEXT fields to an ActiveRecord so that normal models don't have to be weighed down
Getting tired of caching scrape results in my file system
A tagging plugin for Rails applications that allows for custom tagging along dynamic contexts.
An aggregation library
Skift Air
Air rails
Visualization in Python with the Altair library. Done in Jupyter Notebooks.
The API documentation for several NASA APIs.
A hosted, shared-service that provides an API key, analytics, and proxy solution for government web services.
A better array for the browser and node.js. Supports events & many functional goodies.
Synchronises Assets between Rails and S3
A repo of astronaut data
The hackable text editor
list of projects and implementations in the AT protocol ecosystem
Example scripts to extract, parse, and normalize Academy Award nominee and film data from search results http://awardsdatabase.oscars.org/search/
:books: List of awesome university courses for learning Computer Science!
A curated list of grid(table) libraries and resources that developers may find useful.
A list of awesome interactive journalism projects.
TensorFlow - A curated list of dedicated resources http://tensorflow.org
Testing the new AWS Textract when it comes to extracting data tables from PDFs (pdf-to-csv) and whether it can deliver us from our endless torments
A bunch of helper functions I wrote to use for my own macOS terminal convenience
My personally curated list of bash/command-line commands and snippets that are very useful yet I keep on forgetting