Phil Gorman

Reference Data Librarian. Exploring Parliamentary data in spreadsheets and Jupyter notebooks.

[Phil Gorman @philbgorman]

@nectar I've just had someone spend all of my nectar points, this is the only contact point open right now. Can anyone help?

[Phil Gorman @philbgorman]

Waiting.

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And that's my last tweet. Bye!

[Phil Gorman @philbgorman]

A short thread on keeping people in suspense with your writing

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[Phil Gorman @philbgorman]

I don't care if the tape peels the paint or the blutack leaves a stain. I don't care if we have hillocks of paper blocking doors and covering furniture. I don't care if we get through a thousand crayons and my favourite pens go missing. Adorn my house with this forever.

[Phil Gorman @philbgorman]

Hey Outlook, I know this might be really complicated and leftfield request, but when you send me a meeting request email, could you perhaps, maybe, just if you could, TELL ME WHAT DAY OF THE WEEK THE MEETING IS ON

[Phil Gorman @philbgorman]

Yikes.

[Phil Gorman @philbgorman]

You know I do. https://t.co/h896UAqC8b

[Phil Gorman @philbgorman]

@aliceolilly I think in our generation's terms, its like if Cher Horowitz ended up hanging out with the Libertines

[Phil Gorman @philbgorman]

@graveshambc Have you got a slideshow of the full size photos rather than this set of thumbnails on a loop?

[Phil Gorman @philbgorman]

@AGoldmund Forget Swizz Beatz, we're talking Swish Beaks

[Phil Gorman @philbgorman]

Well, there was this one night....
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...and people don't tend to burn his effigy that much anymore, but they do fireworks instead.

[Sensei Titty Chop @ConsciousFilth]

What's the wildest situation that happened at your place of employment?

[Phil Gorman @philbgorman]

Ready to change my LinkedIn bio to "Data librarian at the Legislative Sausage Factory", thanks to @DArcyTiP and @RuthFox01

[Phil Gorman @philbgorman]

Well done all, incredible effort 👏👏👏

[Carl Baker @CarlBaker]

We have election data! Full datasets with constituency and candidate-level vote shares, electorates, etc are now attached to our @commonslibrary briefing: https://t.co/15ciBhDcAF

[Phil Gorman @philbgorman]

tfw you have a complicated question to answer but you find a jupyter notebook you wrote 3 years ago that can pull and collate the data in 5 minutes

[Phil Gorman @philbgorman]

@aarontay Human indexers + a well-managed thesaurus > AI.

[Phil Gorman @philbgorman]

@Tagishsimon These may be helpful in future -

XML output from the Members database API: https://t.co/uso0bS5REF

JSON output from the Members website API: https://t.co/3bGf2xJydy

[Phil Gorman @philbgorman]

Reading Council: 80s/90s family sitcom theme styling, very soothing, could perhaps do with not looping so often. 7/10

[Phil Gorman @philbgorman]

Verifying election results with local authorities, which means it is once again time to Rate. That. Hold Music!!!

[Phil Gorman @philbgorman]

Oxford City Council: Funky little number, good length, did not mind listening to it for a couple of minutes. 8/10

[Phil Gorman @philbgorman]

No one slept. We're all still awake.

[Phil Gorman @philbgorman]

"and when Fionn Mac Cumhaill heard the threat from Benandonner, he hurled the coastline into the sea..."