Author Archives: Nicola Hughes

Have a Happy Open Data Day with ScraperWiki

Posted on December 2, 2011

Tomorrow is Open Data Day, and if you’re planning on hacking the web with the Open Knowledge Foundation or Random Hacks of Kindness or your own data hack of choice, here’s some fuel for your fight ( and if you’ve … Continue reading →

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Seize the Data Day with Open Knowledge Foundation

Posted on December 1, 2011

On December 3rd at the Barbican Centre in London, the Open Knowledge Foundation will be inviting everyone and anyone who can wrangle up a good bit of data or wrangle the wranglers of data, to a Seize the Data event. … Continue reading →

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Mapping @TahrirSupplies

Posted on November 25, 2011

One of our users I recently met in New York said ScraperWiki is “a great tool for hacktivism”. Because of this we have a lot of ‘hacktivists’ in our community. One such ‘hacktivist’ is Thomas Levine. He’s recently scraped @TahrirSupplies, … Continue reading →

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ScraperWiki in 3 minutes

Posted on November 23, 2011

As you’ve probably noticed, Zarino and the team recently upgraded all of your scraper pages to have a lovely new, more useful look. So we’re rolling out a new set of introductory screencasts going through our new look site and giving … Continue reading →

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With Tools, Tables and Tours: We’re Looking to Liberate Data Across the US

Posted on November 14, 2011

As part of the Knight News Challenge entry, we at ScraperWiki said we would roll out Journalism Data Camps across the U.S. We had done what we called “Hacks and Hackers Hack Day” events across the U.K. and Ireland, bringing journalists and coders together. This happened at the … Continue reading →

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Solving Healthcare Problems with Open Source Software

Posted on November 11, 2011

This year, EHealth Insider brought a new feature to their annual EHI Live exhibition: a healthcare skunkworks that gave visitors the chance to ask questions about how open source software can be used to solve healthcare problems. ScraperWiki, of course had to be … Continue reading →

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Some ScraperWikiLovin’ at MozFest

Posted on November 7, 2011

This weekend saw ideas made reality, collaborations fostered and the future web bloom. The Mozilla Festival was all about making the web and making it happen in two days! Here at ScraperWiki we like doing that with data, so as … Continue reading →

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Which witch is which?

Posted on November 2, 2011

I hope you all had a spooky Halloween and have gorged yourselves on candy. In keeping with the festive cheer, The Guardian Datastore has hopped aboard and with a digger in resident, Chris Blower, and scraped the court cases of … Continue reading →

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Growing back to the Future: Allotments in the UK, open data stories and interventions

Posted on October 31, 2011

This is a guest blog post from Farida Vis. She attended EuroHack at the Open Government Data Camp 2011. It consisted of a series of short talks combined with plenty of opportunities for hacking in groups in the second part the workshop. On the day, … Continue reading →

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Meet Data Without Borders

Posted on October 28, 2011

Whilst navigating the rugged landscape of ‘Big Data‘, we’ve crossed many barriers, traversed wide plains and battled through choppy weather. Along the journey we’ve picked up a lot of hitchhikers (almost 5,000) and laid down a lot of data tracks … Continue reading →

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