Michelle Minkoff - Latest Comments

Re: How to combine multiple Fusion Tables into one map

IRVIN ESCALONA — Tue, 08 Nov 2016 11:53:42 -0000

Good article, Thanks!

Re: Using Google spreadsheets as your database

Vyacheslav Maltsev — Mon, 02 Nov 2015 06:59:16 -0000

Code not working in html-box. It says: failed to load external url full?alt=json-in-script&callback=listEvents

Any ideas what happened with HTML-box?

Re: Tools to help bring data to your journalism

Alex Colt — Sat, 23 May 2015 05:56:14 -0000

Tools mentioned in the above list are contributive. But there are number of charting libraries available in market like Google free chart, Koolchart etc for creation of interactive charts. http://www.koolchart.com
Thanks

Re: Using Google spreadsheets as your database

Joel — Thu, 21 May 2015 00:42:41 -0000

I've tried virtually everything I can think of, to get this to work with my Google spreadsheet, and can't.

It works fine, when I copy and paste your demo, however, not with my own Spreadsheet. Nothing shows up.

Re: Using Google spreadsheets as your database

Joel — Wed, 20 May 2015 19:22:52 -0000

I'm curious how to use a document with multiple sheets as well... Each sheet would correspond with it's own DIV.

Re: Using Google spreadsheets as your database

Shannon Augustine — Sun, 08 Mar 2015 12:24:38 -0000

Curious - are you able to pull data from multiple worksheets? I have this spreadsheets with 5 tabs and I am trying to develop one page with two worksheet tabs data in it, but it seems to not be working - it overrides the first one source.

Re: Lessons from an intermediate journo-programmer’s journey (part 1 of 3)

Mindy McAdams — Mon, 16 Feb 2015 20:51:54 -0000

Reading this, I was wondering about the audience. Is this sufficiently clear for people who are journalist coders at a level a few notches down from where you are today -- or is it only understandable to people who are pretty much at your level, or past that? I enjoyed it and I learned some new things (Jasmine), so thank you! But I also thought of my struggling students who are at a much, much earlier stage.

Re: Lessons from an intermediate journo-programmer’s journey (part 1 of 3)

Roberto Rocha — Mon, 16 Feb 2015 20:26:57 -0000

Lovely insights, Michelle, and great inspiration for those of us a few steps behind. Thanks for sharing.

Re: Using Google spreadsheets as your database

Jonathan Baillie Strong — Sat, 04 Oct 2014 11:36:47 -0000

Great post here Michelle, but it seems like the front end example of where you published the data is no longer available?
(http://www.latimes.com/news... doesn't show the data)

Re: Using Google spreadsheets as your database

John — Fri, 15 Aug 2014 17:11:55 -0000

If I wanted to do this, how would I change the code to link to my public spreadsheet? I'm just attempting to copy your code and use it as a code block in squarespace which works. But when I try to change your spreadsheet URL to my public one on Google, it doesn't work. Hmm.

Re: How to make a non-Flash intensity map in Fusion Tables

Suranjan Mistry — Fri, 08 Aug 2014 05:44:26 -0000

Hello,
How to display more then five layer on my google map api.

Re: Learning…how to think ahead about big-picture coding problems

Michelle Minkoff — Thu, 31 Jul 2014 21:26:26 -0000

Thanks for the comment. I'll work on that, hopefully for next week!

Re: Making the structured usable: Transform JSON into a CSV

Mark Scott — Mon, 28 Jul 2014 04:00:04 -0000

I know this is an old article but json-csv.com converts most JSON from APIs (into CSV) quite well.

Re: Embarking on a study of refactoring — what I’m learning and why

M. Edward (Ed) Borasky — Mon, 16 Jun 2014 00:36:19 -0000

Welcome to the world of refactoring! Fowler's a great place to start, especially for object-oriented languages like Ruby and Java.

Re: Embarking on a study of refactoring — what I’m learning and why

Anthony DeBarros — Sun, 15 Jun 2014 21:37:15 -0000

As always, I share your quest to learn! Lately, I have been forcing myself to stretch while coding (been doing a lot of Python) and almost "refactor" as I go. That is, I will be tempted to reuse code in several places, but then I grit my teeth and spend the extra time creating a reusable function. In the end, the code's better and I feel better about the prospect of having others need to maintain my code someday. Keep up the great work!

Re: Using Google spreadsheets as your database

Yukesh — Sat, 28 Dec 2013 01:22:38 -0000

hi i m doing a project where i get my google form response in a spreadsheet. Now i want that spreadsheet responses to be converted to a SQLite database or any database which later connected to my android app.......please help me out with a solution.

Re: A letter to my 15-year-old self, celebrating life’s lessons

digidave — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 12:06:04 -0000

Beautiful list Michelle. Being older/wiser just makes me want to be a kid again - but without all the hangups.

Re: Making the structured usable: Transform JSON into a CSV

Michelle Minkoff — Sun, 08 Dec 2013 19:47:28 -0000

Just replace this line " url = urllib2.Request('http://search.twitter.com/s... + str(i))"
with the link the address or URL you went to, to grab that page from Twitter. If it's just on your computer, you'll need to put in on the Web somewhere, and then use that address instead. Everything else should be similar.

Re: Making the structured usable: Transform JSON into a CSV

amy — Wed, 04 Dec 2013 22:55:07 -0000

Thanks for this great column. If you already have a JSON file from Twitter, what do I need to modify in your code?

Re: Using Google spreadsheets as your database

Michelle Minkoff — Wed, 04 Sep 2013 22:17:24 -0000

I don't use Google Sites a lot myself, but here's a link that may help -- it explains how to add custom HTML, CSS and JavaScript (which we use in this tutorial/example), to a Google Site. https://support.google.com/...

Re: Using Google spreadsheets as your database

Constantin — Wed, 04 Sep 2013 09:29:48 -0000

Thank you for your response! the project im working on is specifically with google sites. do you know if I can just create my own webpages and still be able to use app scrips? Sorry if this is too off topic of your blog post.

Re: Using Google spreadsheets as your database

Michelle Minkoff — Tue, 03 Sep 2013 12:52:38 -0000

Neither. These are instructions for creating a Web page using JavaScript, which you then can post on the Web somewhere (could be on your own website, or embedded in a Wordpress post, or anywhere else. A "blank doc" is a page you create in a text editor (like TextWrangler, TextMate, Sublime Text) to write custom code for a web page, which you then publish online.

The Google spreadsheet is being used as a place to store the data for your project, but not where the final visible display lives, in this example.

Hope that helps.

Re: Using Google spreadsheets as your database

Constantin — Sat, 31 Aug 2013 14:22:39 -0000

Hi,

By blank doc, do you mean making a new script within the spreadsheet (under tools?) or like inside one of the cells of the spreadsheet?

Re: Making the structured usable: Transform JSON into a CSV

Michelle Minkoff — Sun, 04 Aug 2013 19:17:17 -0000

Add a line to the code telling it to to skip a specific tag or key (for example, "from_user").

Like so:
if (results[i]["from_user"]) {from_user = results[i]["from_user"]}

or some such. That says to only try to fill in that variable if the variable exists in the data. Apply a similar strategy to any keys causing you errors.

Does that help? If not, feel free to email meminkoff AT gmail DOT com.

Re: Making the structured usable: Transform JSON into a CSV

Eduardo — Sat, 03 Aug 2013 19:12:27 -0000

Hi Michelle!
I trying to use your code to parse json on facebook.
I've found that it works until I get a post without one of the elements.
Is likely we have a case of tweet without the "from_user" tag. When it occurs, I getting "KeyError" and the code stops.

Do you have any idea to skip this tags fullfilling with NULL??

Thank you a lot!!!