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 doing a good job. Then I’ll ask the marketers if they think they’re doing a […]
WordPress Titles: scraping with search url
I’ve blogged for a few years now, and I’ve used several tools along the way. zachbeauvais.com began as a Drupal site, until I worked out that it’s a bit overkill, and switched to WordPress. Recently, I’ve been toying with the idea of using a static site generator (a lá Jekyll or Hyde), or even pulling […]
A visit from a minister
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 he could come and have a chat with us in Liverpool. Joined by Sophie and […]
World News Media Hackday
(#DME13hack) On Saturday, 13 April: Global news media execs are gathering in London to discuss the continuing emergence of digital media at WAN-IFRA’s Digital Media Europe 2013 (#DME13) and we’d like to invite you to influence the agenda with a hack day on Saturday 13th April. WAN-IFRA covered the first Knight-Ridder tablet back in 1994. 20 years later, publishers […]
Glue Logic and Flowable Data
Guest post by Tony Hirst As well as being a great tool for scraping and aggregating content from third party sites, Scraperwiki can be used as a transformational “glue logic” tool: joining together applications that utilise otherwise incompatible data formats. Typically, we might think of using a scraper to pull data into one or more […]
How do? I’m Zach.
So, a few years ago, I tended to spend my working time explaining emerging tech ideas (generally around Linked Data, Open Data, and APIs) for a UK-based Semantic Web company called Talis. I helped people tell stories, edited an industry magazine, blogged, podcasted and hosted events. Over time, I found the role evolving naturally into […]