ScraperWiki

Scraping data at home and in the cloud

After evaluating some open data platforms and continuing to work on my scraper for Tulsa Health Department Restaurant Inspections, I've changed my approach a bit. Problems with ScraperWiki My … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Open Data Tagged With: Application programming interface, Data Warehousing, Databases, IP address, OAuth, Oklahoma, open data, PHP, ScraperWiki, ScraperWiki.com, Socrata, Tulsa

January 24, 2012 by groovecoder 5 Comments

Tulsa Data Platform options

This weekend I've been hacking on one of the data ideas we've had - scraping the Tulsa Health Department's Restaurant Inspection data. I'm evaluating a few options for Open Data site/hosting. I'm … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Open Data Tagged With: JSON, Microsoft Excel, open data, Open Source, ScraperWiki, ScraperWiki.com, The Data, Twitter, Uniform Resource Locator

January 10, 2012 by groovecoder 3 Comments

December Meeting

Where: Fab Lab Tulsa What: Pizza provided by Anspire; Luke will give an annual review of the group. Agenda: Non-profit update Team updates Open Data - hack day week after Xmas? Set … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Meetings Tagged With: Fab Lab Tulsa, Focus group, Hack Day, hackathon, Luke, open data, ScraperWiki, Xmas

December 1, 2011 by groovecoder Leave a Comment

Tulsa Data Platform?

Our Hackathon went very well - thanks to everyone who came and helped out! The TRIF project in particular inspired lots of follow-up discussion and an idea - create an online platform for … [Read more...]