As well as developing scrapers and a data platform, at ScraperWiki we also do data analysis. Some of this is just because we’re interested, other times it’s because clients don’t have the tools or the time to do the analysis they want themselves. Often the problem is with the size of the data. Excel is […]
My friend Simon Holgate of Sea Level Research has recently “cursed” me by introducing me to tides and sea-level data. Now I’m hooked. Why are tides interesting? When you’re trying to navigate a super-tanker into San Francisco Bay and you only have few centimetres of clearance, whether the tide is in or out could be […]
My colleague @frabcus captured the main theme of Strata New York #strataconf in his most recent blog post. This was our first official speaking engagement in the USA as a Knight News Challenge 2011 winner. Here is my twopence worth! At first we were a little confused at the way in which the week long […]
