An investigation into Irish politicians who recorded their attendance in the main government building for expenses purposes on days when they did not attend any of the votes held there. I pitched this idea while on a Google News Initiative Fellowship. I wrote a scraper in R to collect data on voting records and combined this with publicly available attendance records to make a database that showed who had missed votes when they had recorded themselves as onsite.
Similar to the above investigation but for members of the Seanad rather than the
Dáil.
An investigation into Dublin’s housing crisis. I worked as a researcher on this programme, making databases of figures for housing availability and planning permission requests in different areas. Some of this information was scraped from online reports using R and some gathered from FOI requests.
An investigation into how the traveller community is treated by different council districts in Ireland. Again I worked as a researcher on this programme pulling together data from FOI requests.
The Syllabus.
This is a cool project that aggregates interesting articles, papers and lecture videos from across the internet. I did some work in the early stages of this, writing scripts to pull data from YouTube videos and similar.