Rufus Pollock [rgrp]

Member since 01 January 2005

Rufus is an avid hacker on many small data tools, an enthusiastic collector of new datasets and an excited out-of-hours data-based investigator. Skills are various including some python, javascript, sysadmin and data wrangling.

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Rufus Pollock is a maintainer or contributor to the following projects.

Open Knowledge Labs website

The Open Knowledge Labs website (i.e. the site you’re looking at right now) is itself a collaborative project of Open Knowledge. It is built using Jekyll, a static site generator, and hosted on GitHub Pages. You can contribute by addressing some of the items on...

CSV.js

Simple javascript CSV library focused on the browser with zero dependencies. Supports both parsing and serializing CSV. Originally developed as part of ReclineJS but now fully standalone.

Data Pipes

Data Pipes is a service to provide streaming, “pipe-like” data transformations on the web – things like deleting rows or columns, find and replace, head, grep etc.

ElasticSearch.JS

A simple javascript library for working with ElasticSearch. It also provides a backend interface to ElasticSearch suitable for use with the Recline suite of data libraries.

Data Explorer

Data Explorer is an in-browser data cleaning and visualization app. Load tabular data, process it with JavaScript, and graph the results, all in the comfort of your browser. Gist-based persistence enables simple versioning and sharing of projects.

Frictionless Data

There’s too much friction working with data - friction getting data, friction processing data, friction sharing data. This friction stops people doing stuff: stops them creating, sharing, collaborating, and using data - especially amongst more distributed communities. It kills the cycles of find, improve, share...

ReclineJS

Recline is a simple but powerful library for building data applications in pure Javascript and HTML. Building on Backbone, Recline supplies components and structure to data-heavy applications by providing a set of models (Dataset, Record/Row, Field) and views (Grid, Map, Graph etc).

Textus

In a nutshell it is an open source platform for working with collections of texts. It enables students, researchers and teachers to share and collaborate around texts using a simple and intuitive interface.

Listify

Turn a Google spreadsheet into a beautiful, searchable listing in seconds

TimeMapper

Make timelines & maps from a Google Spreadsheet in seconds

Recline Chrome CSV Viewer

A chrome extension which allows you to view, search, graph and map CSV files in the browser (built using Recline)

Data Converters

Python library and command line tool for converting data from one format to another. It builds on messytables, GDAL and many more great open-source libraries for processing data, and provides one easy to use standard API.

WikipediaJS

WikipediaJS is a simple JS library for accessing information in Wikipedia articles such as dates, places, abstracts etc. The library is the work of Labs member Rufus Pollock. In essence, it is a small wrapper around the data and APIs of the DBPedia project and...