The Town Hall Project makes it easy to find local town halls with your state and federal representatives. To get this information, volunteers spend time searching through politicians’ Twitter feeds for town hall announcements. I wrote a script to help do this faster and less painfully.

You may have heard of this before; academic websites, CVs, and Twitter feeds typically catalogue successes, obscuring the many failures and rejections that are a natural part of any academic career. Following many others, and in the spirit of openness, here is a CV of my own failures.

I really wanted to see the link graph of websites, but didn’t find user-friendly tools for doing this. So, I wrote my own. In this post, I describe how the script works, how to run it, how to customize the visualizations, and what issues I ran into along the way. Most importantly, I have some pretty pictures and an embedded interactive graph of this very site.