Simon Willison
Simon Willison is the creator of Datasette, an open source tool for exploring and publishing data. He recently completed a JSK journalism fellowship at Stanford, during which he focused on building open source tools for journalism based on his experience working as a data journalist at the UK's Guardian newspaper.
Prior to the fellowship, Simon was an engineering director at Eventbrite. Simon joined Eventbrite through their acquisition of Lanyrd, a Y Combinator funded company he co-founded in 2010.
He is a co-creator of the Django Web Framework, and has been blogging about web development and programming since 2002 at https://simonwillison.net/
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Events
| Title | Day | Room | Track | Start | End |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Datasette An open source multi-tool for exploring and publishing data |
Saturday | D.research | Open Research Tools and Technologies | 16:40 | 17:05 |