Comments on: Meet the User – Kevin Curry https://blog.scraperwiki.com/2011/07/meet-the-user-kevin-curry/ Extract tables from PDFs and scrape the web Thu, 14 Jul 2016 16:12:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.6 By: Nicola Hughes https://blog.scraperwiki.com/2011/07/meet-the-user-kevin-curry/#comment-667 Mon, 04 Jul 2011 18:02:09 +0000 http://blog.scraperwiki.com/?p=758215090#comment-667 Yargh. Thought I had put it in there but must have put it in wrong 🙁

His delicious bookmarks are linked to his name but here they are for those who didn’t navigate to it via the link: http://www.delicious.com/prestidigital/USDA+scraperwiki

]]> By: Kevin Curry https://blog.scraperwiki.com/2011/07/meet-the-user-kevin-curry/#comment-666 Mon, 04 Jul 2011 15:47:00 +0000 http://blog.scraperwiki.com/?p=758215090#comment-666 HA! I noticed that, too. Great catch, Henare.

I came back to this article today with an update. Here is a faceted version of data.gov:

http://lab.linkeddata.deri.ie/data.gov/

Judging by the numbers, the most open category by far is Geography & Environment and the EPA is the most prolific publisher. Agriculture isn’t even close. So, I overstated when I said USDA is one of the biggest publishers.

]]> By: Henare Degan https://blog.scraperwiki.com/2011/07/meet-the-user-kevin-curry/#comment-665 Sat, 02 Jul 2011 01:44:48 +0000 http://blog.scraperwiki.com/?p=758215090#comment-665 >It bothers me when governments and newspapers cite facts based on data but don’t link to the data

Me too, so here’s a link to the data for this story 🙂

http://scraperwiki.com/scrapers/usda_fruit_veg_commodities/

]]> By: Kevin Curry https://blog.scraperwiki.com/2011/07/meet-the-user-kevin-curry/#comment-664 Fri, 01 Jul 2011 16:43:29 +0000 http://blog.scraperwiki.com/?p=758215090#comment-664 Actually, there were two CityCamps in the UK, too: CityCamp London and CityCamp Brighton. CityCamp Manchester is next!

]]>