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Theywriteforyou is a project mainly written in JavaScript, it's free.

Data journalism mashup, showing the number of articles by MPs in British newspapers.

"They Write For You":http://github.com/premasagar/theywriteforyou A demo is at: "dharmafly.com/theywriteforyou/":http://dharmafly.com/theywriteforyou/

This mashup demonstrates the influence of British MPs in newspapers, showing those MPs who have written newspaper articles, and the potential influence of party politics in mainstream media.

Created in just a few hours at the "Hackers & Hacks Hackday":http://blog.scraperwiki.com/post/276214472/data-driven-journalism-hackday, with data from "Journalisted":http://journalisted.com, using "ScraperWiki":http://scraperwiki.com, Python, Ruby and JavaScript. By "Jonathan Richards":http://labs.timesonline.co.uk, "Anna Powell-Smith":http://twitter.com/darkgreener, "Premasagar Rose":http://twitter.com/premasagar, "Simon Willison":http://twitter.com/simonw, "Julian Burgess":http://blog.opening-times.co.uk and "Rob McKinnon":http://theyworkforyou.co.nz.

("MIT license":http://opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php)

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