Major Milestone: Over 50 million companies (& a sneak peak at the future)

TLDR: OpenCorporates smashes through the 50 million companies mark, and starts work mapping corporate networks. We're pleased to announce that this weekend we smashed through the 50 million companies mark, with the addition of Thailand, West Virginia and several smaller territories (e.g. Dubai). At last count (it's changing every hour), we had 50,955,988 companies in 68 jurisdictions. That's … Continue reading Major Milestone: Over 50 million companies (& a sneak peak at the future) →

Guest Post: Data Sketching With the OpenCorporates API

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 →

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

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 →