Ben Welsh
Ben Welsh has been a database producer at The Times since 2007. He develops news applications for latimes.com and conducts analysis for reporting projects. He lives in Downtown Los Angeles, but grew up in Swisher, Iowa.
Blog posts
Introducing Silent L.A.
A new open-source template for a black base map about Southern California
Open-source maps of California’s emergency medical agencies
The Times releases map files in SHP, JSON, KML formats.
The Times contributes LAFD fire stations to OpenStreetMap
All 106 L.A. city facilities added to open-source database
Introducing Quiet L.A.
A new open-source template for a muted base map about Southern California, and the lessons we learned making it
Inside our 911 response time analysis
How the Data Desk analyzed public records to identify a systematic weakness in LAFD service at the LA city border.
Test your Django app with Travis CI
Make sure your code works with different versions of Python, Django and whatever else
Introducing django-bakery
A set of helpers for baking out your Django site as flat files
Sphinx documentation on GitHub
Quickly publish documentation alongside your code by following this easy recipe.
Introducing django-softhyphen
Using this new open-source Python library from The Data Desk, online publishers can more easily format text into columns that align to both the left and right margins.
