QuickCode (formerly ScraperWiki) was a web-based platform for collaboratively building programs to extract and analyze public (online) data, in a
wiki
A wiki ( ) is a form of hypertext publication on the internet which is collaboratively edited and managed by its audience directly through a web browser. A typical wiki contains multiple pages that can either be edited by the public or l ...
-like fashion. "Scraper" refers to
screen scrapers, programs that extract data from websites. "Wiki" means that any user with
programming
Program (American English; also Commonwealth English in terms of computer programming and related activities) or programme (Commonwealth English in all other meanings), programmer, or programming may refer to:
Business and management
* Program m ...
experience can create or edit such programs for extracting new data, or for analyzing existing datasets.
The main use of the website is providing a place for
programmer
A programmer, computer programmer or coder is an author of computer source code someone with skill in computer programming.
The professional titles Software development, ''software developer'' and Software engineering, ''software engineer' ...
s and
journalist
A journalist is a person who gathers information in the form of text, audio or pictures, processes it into a newsworthy form and disseminates it to the public. This is called journalism.
Roles
Journalists can work in broadcast, print, advertis ...
s to collaborate on analyzing public data.
The service was renamed circa 2016, as "it isn't a wiki or just for scraping any more".
At the same time, the eponymous parent company was renamed 'The Sensible Code Company'.
History
ScraperWiki was founded in 2009 by
Julian Todd and Aidan McGuire. It was initially funded by 4iP, the venture capital arm of TV station
Channel 4
Channel 4 is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by Channel Four Television Corporation. It is state-owned enterprise, publicly owned but, unlike the BBC, it receives no public funding and is funded en ...
. Since then, it has attracted an additional £1 Million round of funding from Enterprise Ventures.
Aidan McGuire is the
chief executive officer
A chief executive officer (CEO), also known as a chief executive or managing director, is the top-ranking corporate officer charged with the management of an organization, usually a company or a nonprofit organization.
CEOs find roles in variou ...
of The Sensible Code Company
See also
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Data driven journalism
Data journalism or data-driven journalism (DDJ) is journalism based on the filtering and analysis of large data sets for the purpose of creating or elevating a news story.
Data journalism reflects the increased role of numerical data in the p ...
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Web scraping
Web scraping, web harvesting, or web data extraction is data scraping used for data extraction, extracting data from websites. Web scraping software may directly access the World Wide Web using the Hypertext Transfer Protocol or a web browser. W ...
References
External links
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github repository of custard
Collaborative projects
Wiki software
Social information processing
Web analytics
Mashup (web application hybrid)
Web scraping
Software using the GNU Affero General Public License
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