Christian McDonald

icon company University of Texas at Austin. Formerly Austin American-Statesman. icon location Austin, TX icon location Associate Professor of Practice in the School of Journalism and Media at the University of Texas at Austin. Formerly @statesman

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Timeout on older charts

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This error indicates it is more a problem from Billboard, but in a loop pulling charts I get significantly more timeouts on older charts, starting seriously around 2010. These aren't...

Scrape: Add Slack notification of update

I want to know if files were updated or if the action fails. I've tried this based on a NICAR workshop but the Slack action gets 404. I can't figure...

Scrape: Combine to a single job

There are ways to run a job if another one is a success. I should change this so the combination happens within the same script if any files are updated.

Multiple performer analysis

One challenge here in analysis is collaborations among artists. I need to figure out whys to deal with a number of combinations: - Drake Featuring WizKid & Kyla - The...