Tag Archives: scraperwiki

A visit from a minister

Posted on March 8, 2013 by

You may have heard from twitter that last Wednesday, Nick Hurd, the Cabinet Minister for Civil Society, paid a visit to ScraperWiki HQ. Nick has been looking into government data and transparency as part of his remit, and asked if … Continue reading →

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The state of Twitter: Mitt Romney and Indonesian Politics

Posted on July 23, 2012 by

It’s no secret that a lot of people use ScraperWiki to search the Twitter API or download their own timelines. Our “basic_twitter_scraper” is a great starting point for anyone interested in writing code that makes data do stuff across the … Continue reading →

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Fine set of graphs at the Office of National Statistics

Posted on March 22, 2012 by

It’s difficult to keep up. I’ve just noticed a set of interesting interactive graphs over at the Office of National Statistics (UK). If the world is about people, then the most fundamental dataset of all must be: Where are the … Continue reading →

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How to stop missing the good weekends

Posted on January 20, 2012 by

Far too often I get so stuck into the work week that I forget to monitor the weather for the weekend when I should be going off to play on my dive kayaks — an activity which is somewhat weather … Continue reading →

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ScraperWiki scrapers: now 53% more useful!

Posted on November 16, 2011 by

It’s Christmas come early at ScraperWiki HQ as we deliver—like elves popping boxes under the data digging Christmas tree—a bunch of great new improvements to the ScraperWiki site. We’ve been working on these for a while, so it’s great to … Continue reading →

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Solving Healthcare Problems with Open Source Software

Posted on November 11, 2011 by

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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How to get along with an ASP webpage

Posted on November 9, 2011 by

Fingal County Council of Ireland recently published a number of sets of Open Data, in nice clean CSV, XML and KML formats. Unfortunately, the one set of Open Data that was difficult to obtain, was the list of sets of … Continue reading →

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Meet all our users!!!!

Posted on October 21, 2011 by

As I have been looking for your great guys to highlight your work, passion and scraping oddities, so your time has come to explore the craven habits of the new age data digging programmers! You can now search for people … Continue reading →

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ScraperWiki Tutorial Screencast for Non-Programmers

Posted on August 15, 2011 by

If you’ve been going through our first ambitious tutorial and taster session for non-coders then good for you! I hope you found it enlightening. For those of you yet to try it, here it is. It is a step-by-step guide … Continue reading →

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This one goes out to the ScraperWikians we love!

Posted on August 12, 2011 by

From business licenses in Islington (London, UK) to Oakland (Calinfornia, USA), councillors in India, presidential engagements in Ireland, newspapers in America and planning applications in Westoxon; here at ScraperWiki we are saluting our users who are looting the web of … Continue reading →

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