What makes OpenCorporates strong is the community of talented and committed botwriters and data hunter who volunteer their time to contribute open data. Our bot writers or as we call them, Turboteers, work in their free time, to understand complex data sources, solving problems and writing scrapers to extract it. This is crucial to our … Continue reading Meet the Turboteers: Knut
By Rebecca Sentance So far this year, I’ve had the privilege of attending many #FlashHacks events, data liberation hackathons run by OpenCorporates, which runs the world’s largest open companies database. Attending #FlashHacks has brought me into contact with the world of corporate data, which isn’t something I would ever have considered or had contact with otherwise. … Continue reading Reflections on Liberating Corporate Data through #FlashHacks
What makes OpenCorporates strong is the community of talented and committed botwriters and data hunter swho volunteer their time to contribute open data. Our bot writers or as we call them, Turboteers, work in their free time, to understand complex data sources, solving problems and writing scrapers to extract it. This is crucial to our … Continue reading Meet the Turboteers – Carlos
On March 15th, Civio hosted a #FlashHacks event in Madrid to , a data scraping extract & liberate data to feed the Map The Banks project, an Open Corporates initiative we have partnered with. The aim was to release data from financial institutions and pass them to open formats, giving developers and coders an opportunity … Continue reading Civio hosts #FlashHacks event in Madrid
This post is the part of a weekly blogpost series updating you on what’s going on at OpenCorporates this week. Want to help us get more data? Claim a mission! Data the OpenCorporates team is scraping…. from the Data team (Peter & Shyam) Business licenses. Business licenses are interesting because they contain information about business … Continue reading Weekly StandUp #5: What Happened at OpenCorporates
The time is here for me to finally announce OpenCorporate's Community plan for the upcoming year. We have kept a tight lid on it so far because we have been trialling different event formats since I joined OpenCorporates a few months ago. We've grown to 85 million companies in 100 jurisdictions worldwide in the past … Continue reading Join the OpenCorporates Community: Meetups, #FlashHacks & Missions
Yesterday, the OKFest team launched a beautiful report on numbers, impact and stories associated with this years OKFest in Berlin. It's one of the best reports on the impact of an event I have ever seen. For those of you who follow this blog, you'll need no explanation on how involved OpenCorporates was at OKFest. If you don't … Continue reading #FlashHacks trends at OKFest ’14
10 million data points crowdscraped in 10 days? When OpenCorporates launched this target just 2 weeks ago, we thought it was challenging but doable. Doable, that is, provided we could reach out to bot writers online. Doable providing that the culmination of the campaign at OKFest, probably the world's largest gathering of the open data movement, worked … Continue reading #FlashHacks: the start of a crowdscraping movement…
The success story that is OpenCorporates is very much a team effort – not just the tiny OpenCorporates core team, but the whole open data community, who from the beginning have been helping us in so many ways, from writing scrapers for company registers, to alerting us when new data is available, to helping with language or … Continue reading Launching #FlashHacks: a crowdscraping movement to release 10 million data points in 10 days. Are you in?
blog.opencorporates.com 