Our digger has been driving around colder climes by one of our star users. Icelander Pall Hilmarrson. Driving such a heavy vehicle on icy surfaces and through volcanic ash may seem daunting to most people, but Pall has not only ventured forth undeterred, he has given passers-by a lift. One such hitch-hiker is Chris Taggart with his […]
We Eat Data – ScraperWiki talk at Open Knowledge Conference 2011
Our tamed computer programmer, ‘The Julian’, recently gave a rare appearance at the Open Knowledge Conference in Berlin (if you want an appearance pay us or ask us!). The spectacle of such scraping royalty drew more people than the room could accommodate (‘The Julian’ is not related to any royals living or deceased). As such […]
Meet the User – Kevin Curry
The ScraperWiki digger had been driven far and wide. Wherever there’s open data you’ll find us parked nearby. I’ve noticed it travel across the Atlantic and have contacted the driver – Kevin Curry. He has the grand title (as well as digger driver!) of Chief Scientist and Co-founder of Bridgeborn, Inc. He is computer science […]
Meet the User – Philip John
As you can imagine we get a lot of website developers who make pretty, useful things that flash and jump and link. But the humble scraper can do heavy lifting for the building blocks that ultimately make these centres for civic engagement most engaging. So our user of the week is one such developer – […]
Opening Data at Open Knowledge Conference Berlin
If you haven’t already heard, the Open Knowledge Foundation is hosting a one week conference in Berlin next week. We’re very excited and will be running workshops on the Monday and Tuesday. We hope to meet some of our German users and opening data in the way we know best. It’s an all-star line up […]
Meet the User – Tim Retout
You may have noticed some illicit back-alley forking going around on ScraperWiki. The above picture looks very much like my Cabinet Spending Word Cloud Date Slider. Well, to tell you the truth, a gal could do with a bit of forking every now and again! Which is why I’ve nominated Tim Retout (@diocles) as our […]
Meet the User – Robert McWilliam
There’s been a lot of ScraperWiki buzzing going on but not on our site. On Twitter! And I’m not just talking about Scrape_No.10. No, the trend has spread and Edinburgh planning applications are being tweeted out by PlanningAppMap! What’s great about this (besides preventing angry Scotsmen from rioting when their local pub gets torn down […]
Scraped Data Something to Tweet About
I’m a coding pleb, or The Scraper’s Apprentice as I like to call myself. But I realise that’s no excuse, as many of the ScraperWiki users I talk to have not had formal coding lessons themselves. Indeed, some of our founders aren’t formally trained (we have a doctorate in Chemistry here!). I’ve been attempting to […]
Meet the User – Tim McNamara
You may have noticed a Kiwi driving our digger around of late (image is purely metaphorical). A New Zealander by the name of Tim McNamara has been unearthing earthquakes, government bills, historic places, clinical trials and even companies. I had to enquire after such a scraping wizard (trying to get a Lord of the Rings reference in […]
Code for America getting all ScraperWikied over Government Data
Hackathons have been sprouting up all over the world. In fact, there was an Open Data Hackathon in Guatemala City just last week! But the loudest buzz coming for the data hack hive can be heard in the US where Code for America has been producing the sweetest honey. So here at ScraperWiki headquarters we are […]