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 over my datajunkie notes, I may only have been using the OpenCorporates API since March … Continue reading Guest Post: Data Sketching With the OpenCorporates API
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 to search for a company name without subscribing to its paid service. In case this … Continue reading Now with 1.7 million Spanish companies (& 700,000 Panamanian ones)
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 English-language companies, although they still outnumber the others, but nevertheless it's English words that dominate. … Continue reading Services, Management, Holding… and Gabem? Exploring company names
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 more countries too. ...Or rather, we've added more jurisdictions, as it's not just countries that … Continue reading OpenCorporates March update: more companies, more data, more features
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