Ken’s work on Source

Code

1. django-bakery
2. python-elections

Projects

1. How (and Why) ProPublica Got Into the Elections Game
2. Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Elections Scraping
3. How to Break News While You Sleep
4. For Journalism: How it Started, Where it’s Going

Articles by Ken

1. 

   How (and Why) ProPublica Got Into the Elections Game

   A Q&A with the team behind Electionland and the Election DataBot

   Posted on September 9, 2016

   Yesterday morning, ProPublica announced two new projects: Electionland, a large-scale intiative to report on voting access and problems in the upcoming US elections, and Election DataBot, a comprehensive election-info data tracker and feed.

2. 

   Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Elections Scraping

   The Fine Art of Anticipating and Catching Errors in Deeply Weird Data

   Posted on November 24, 2014

   Jeremy Merrill and Ken Schwencke explore the fine art of anticipating and catching errors while wrangling the eccentricities of US elections data.

3. 

   How to Break News While You Sleep

   The LAT Data Desk’s Ken Schwencke on smoke, mirrors, and madlibs

   Posted on March 24, 2014

   Around 6:25 a.m. I was awakened by a jolt from slipping tectonic plates. The tremor didn’t last very long, and as soon as my window stopped rattling my first thought was to check for an email.