Simon Willison • 12/10/2025

Under the hood of Canada Spends with Brendan Samek

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A technical interview with Brendan Samek detailing the Canada Spends project. It covers how the team uses Datasette, custom Ruby scripts, sqlite-utils, and LLM-powered PDF extraction (like Gemini) to process and make searchable over 2 million rows of Canadian government financial data from often-inaccessible PDF sources.

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