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'''ScraperWiki''' is a web-based platform for collaboratively building programs to extract and analyze public (online) data, in a [[wiki]]-like fashion. "Scraper" refers to [[screen scraper]]s, programs that extract data from websites. "Wiki" means that any user with [[Computer programming|programming]] experience can create or edit such programs for extracting new data, or for analyzing existing datasets.<ref name=4ip-invest /> The main use of the website is providing a place for [[programmer]]s and [[journalist]]s to collaborate on analyzing public data.<ref>{{cite news |author=Cian Ginty |date=2010-11-19 |title=Hacks and hackers unite to get solid stories from difficult data |publisher=The Irish Times |url=http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/finance/2010/1119/1224283709384.html }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |author=Paul Bradshaw |date=2010-07-07 |title=An introduction to data scraping with Scraperwiki |publisher=Online Journalism Blog |url=http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2010/07/07/an-introduction-to-data-scraping-with-scraperwiki/ }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author=Charles Arthur |date=2010-11-22 |title=Analysing data is the future for journalists, says Tim Berners-Lee |publisher=The Guardian |url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/nov/22/data-analysis-tim-berners-lee }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author=Deirdre McArdle |date=2010-11-19 |title=In The Papers 19 November |publisher=ENN |url=http://www.enn.ie/story/show/10125973 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=2010-11-15 |title=Journalists and developers join forces for Lichfield ‘hack day’ |publisher=The Lichfield Blog |url=http://thelichfieldblog.co.uk/2010/11/15/journalists-and-developers-join-forces-for-lichfield-hack-day/ }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author=Alison Spillane |date=2010-11-17 |title=Online tool helps to create greater public data transparency |publisher=Politico |url=http://politico.ie/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6906:online-tool-helps-to-create-greater-public-data-transparency&catid=193:science-tech&Itemid=880 }}</ref>
==History==
ScraperWiki was founded in 2009 by [[Julian Todd]] and Aidan Maguire. It was initially funded by 4iP, the venture capital arm of TV station [[Channel 4 Television Corporation|Channel 4]]. Since then, it has attracted an additional £1 Million round of funding from Enterprise Ventures.
[[Francis Irving]] is the Chief Executive Officer of ScraperWiki.<ref>[http://blog.scraperwiki.com/2012/03/09/from-cms-to-dms-c-is-for-content-d-is-for-data/ From CMS to DMS: C is for Content, D is for Data] from the ScraperWiki Data Blog</ref>
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