[okfn-labs] Recent work on PyBossa

Thu Aug 2 11:51:00 UTC 2012

Hi,

Here's just a brief update on what I've been doing the last days. I set up my own PyBossa instance on which I'm going to run a few apps used in data journalism projects. One of them is about classifying links within a political social network I parsed from Wikipedia, the other will be used to track advertising in publications by political parties in Germany.

When I started to create the first PyBossa app I realized that the way the current tutorial apps (such as flickrperson) are created is way too complicated. So at first I wrote pybossa-client to simplify things, such as firing JSON API calls to PyBossa etc.

https://github.com/PyBossa/pybossa-client

After the first app was ready we felt that the way the tasks are presented currently is a bit distracting, and for some users it could be even daunting. That's why I wrote a small framework for hosting pybossa apps outside of PyBossa instances.

https://github.com/gka/pybossa-apps

Here's the first app running on that framework (German):

http://apps.pybossa.vis4.net/d4a

Cheers,
Gregor
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