Halloween – ScraperWiki https://blog.scraperwiki.com Extract tables from PDFs and scrape the web Tue, 09 Aug 2016 06:10:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.6 58264007 Which witch is which? https://blog.scraperwiki.com/2011/11/which-witch-is-which/ Wed, 02 Nov 2011 17:35:50 +0000 http://blog.scraperwiki.com/?p=758215787 I hope you all had a spooky Halloween and have gorged yourselves on candy. In keeping with the festive cheer, The Guardian Datastore has hopped aboard and with a digger in resident, Chris Blower, and scraped the court cases of Scottish witches.

Thanks to Lisa Evans we can now see that the most common reason for a court case to be held against a suspected witch arises from the defendant being implicated by another women convicted as, or suspected to be, a witch. Shocking! (Note: our digger is gender neutral!).

So hats off (pun intended) to the digger, the digital journalist and the data!

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