Use Your Data Skills for Good
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Builds a Shiny app with full-text search over decades of PDF newsletters and adds a chatbot that returns source document links, using llama parse to extract text and LLMs to help write code. Creates a cross-agenda search used more than the official site by one councilor. Converts messy PDF election returns into maps, searchable tables and heat maps. Scrapes event listings with rvest and tidyrss, publishes with quarto, and runs updates via cron or GitHub Actions.
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