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'''ScraperWiki''' was 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=
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