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Guest Post: Data Sketching With the OpenCorporates API

Posted on December 17, 2012 by

Tony Hirst, a lecturer in the Department of Communication and Systems at The Open University, and author of the OUseful.info blog has been using the OpenCorporates API for some time. Here’s a review of some of his experiments. Looking back … Continue reading →

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Now with 1.7 million Spanish companies (& 700,000 Panamanian ones)

Posted on June 28, 2011 by

One of the two most request jurisdictions for OpenCorporates to start covering has been Spain (the other one, for obvious reasons, is Delaware, in the US). It’s not hard to understand why, as the official register doesn’t even allow you … Continue reading →

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Services, Management, Holding… and Gabem? Exploring company names

Posted on April 19, 2011 by

Last night, for a bit of fun, we thought we’d have a look in the common words used in company names, using all 8 million-plus companies in the growing OpenCorporates database of companies. Now, the database is no longer just … Continue reading →

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OpenCorporates March update: more companies, more data, more features

Posted on March 18, 2011 by

The past few months have been pretty busy at OpenCorporates, with literally hundreds of commits, improvements, bugfixes and tweaks. The underlying search has been improved (with more improvements planned), we’re now pulling in more data about companies, and we’ve added … Continue reading →

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