Below you will find pages that utilize the taxonomy term “Data”
Chasing Down a Weekly Data Script (and What We Learned Along the Way)
We set out to automate our USDA data fetch once a week. Instead, we ended up debugging flaky endpoints, GitHub Actions, and a government SSL certificate. Here’s the story.
Chasing Clean Data (and Catching Most of It)
Data hunts rarely start glamorous. Ours began with a simple question: where do we find a reliable, national list of farmers markets? Then came spreadsheets, acronyms, and a lot of “huh, that’s interesting.”
The short version
We sourced a national directory, normalized it into a clean, portable database, added guardrails for trust, and exposed it via an API that’s fast enough for maps and simple enough for people. Not perfect yet—but solid, explainable, and built to improve.