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How do? I’m Zach.
me, looking into the far distance 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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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Combining survey data with scraped data to tell a story
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...
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Getting SkilledUp
Guest Post by SkilledUp‘s Nick Gidwani. ScraperWiki is a revolutionary tool. Not just because it allows you to collect data, but because it allows anyone – including journalists who now must specialize...
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Careers in Computing
I realise the whole world isn’t inspired by the same things I am, and that’s fair enough. However, on Wednesday, I had the privilege of being invited to share some of my inspiration with a bunch of...
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Young Rewired State: 2013 Festival of Code
Guest post by Kaitlin Dunning from Young Rewired State Young Rewired State is a network of software developers and designers aged 18 and under. It is the philanthropic arm of Rewired State and its...
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Data Science Magic
where data wizards learn magic As a business person, if I want insight into my business needs, I can ask a data scientist for answers, so I can make better decisions! Urgh: the sound I make reading...
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Asking data questions of words
The vast majority of my contributions to the web have been loosely encoded in the varyingly standard-compliant family of languages called English. It’s a powerful language for expressing meaning, but...
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Big Data Week Events
Next week, a plethora of organisations, hackers and data scientists are celebrating “Big Data Week,” and the ScraperWiki team will be taking part in London. We will be supporting the DoES Liverpool...
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Two ways you can help guide ScraperWiki’s new platform.
You will have noticed some activity over the past few weeks, as we have begun reaching out about the new ScraperWiki platform. We’ve blogged about some of the new features, and have invited the first...
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data-driven london week
Most mornings this week, I awoke in the mystical land of Hackney, and battled hordes of hipster-cyclists to make my way to the Google Campus – a refuge of data-folk. At least, that’s how I like to...
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Summarising Serendipity
5 years ago, a friend and I sat down in a pub in Shrewsbury, drank some beer, and chatted about the web. Every month since, people have been doing that in Shrewsbury (and a few times in Ludlow). It’s...
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Why the World Got Stuck on Spreadsheets and the Future of Data Manipulation
Guest post by Dan Thompson In 1979 a Harvard MBA student and former programmer at DEC, invented something that fundamentally change the world of IT and which still affects everyone with a desk job...
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