Author Archives: Zach Beauvais

Summarising Serendipity

Posted on May 7, 2013

5 years ago, a friend and I sat down in a pub in Shrewsbury, drank some beer, and chatted about the web. Every month since, people have been doing that in Shrewsbury (and a few times in Ludlow). It’s called … Continue reading →

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data-driven london week

Posted on April 26, 2013

Most mornings this week, I awoke in the mystical land of Hackney, and battled hordes of hipster-cyclists to make my way to the Google Campus – a refuge of data-folk. At least, that’s how I like to remember it. As … Continue reading →

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Two ways you can help guide ScraperWiki’s new platform.

Posted on April 22, 2013

You will have noticed some activity over the past few weeks, as we have begun reaching out about the new ScraperWiki platform. We’ve blogged about some of the new features, and have invited the first ever users outside the office … Continue reading →

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Big Data Week Events

Posted on April 18, 2013

Next week, a plethora of organisations, hackers and data scientists are celebrating “Big Data Week,” and the ScraperWiki team will be taking part in London. We will be supporting the DoES Liverpool exhibit at the Internet of Things stream of … Continue reading →

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Asking data questions of words

Posted on April 9, 2013

The vast majority of my contributions to the web have been loosely encoded in the varyingly standard-compliant family of languages called English. It’s a powerful language for expressing meaning, but the inference engines needed to parse it are pretty complex, … Continue reading →

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Data Science Magic

Posted on March 26, 2013

As a business person, if I want insight into my business needs, I can ask a data scientist for answers, so I can make better decisions! Urgh: the sound I make reading that. I am starting to wonder if Data … Continue reading →

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Young Rewired State: 2013 Festival of Code

Posted on March 25, 2013

Guest post by Kaitlin Dunning from Young Rewired State Young Rewired State is a network of software developers and designers aged 18 and under. It is the philanthropic arm of Rewired State and its primary focus is to find and … Continue reading →

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Careers in Computing

Posted on March 22, 2013

I realise the whole world isn’t inspired by the same things I am, and that’s fair enough. However, on Wednesday, I had the privilege of being invited to share some of my inspiration with a bunch of teenagers at the … Continue reading →

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Getting SkilledUp

Posted on March 21, 2013

Guest Post by SkilledUp‘s Nick Gidwani. ScraperWiki is a revolutionary tool. Not just because it allows you to collect data, but because it allows anyone – including journalists who now must specialize in data – to organize and draw conclusions … Continue reading →

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Combining survey data with scraped data to tell a story

Posted on March 18, 2013

Guest post by Dan Armstrong My last three jobs have involved telling stories with survey data.  Since every story requires a conflict, I look for conflicts. For instance, I’ll go to CFOs and ask them if their marketing people are … Continue reading →

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