The Data Wrangling Blog

The first quarter of 2016 is almost through, which means that the OKFN Labs Newsletter is on its way! But we have a problem. We know that you have spent the last 3 months writing awesome code, founding disruptive new projects and basically changing the...

Hey there hackers & hackettes! Welcome to the 4th quarter 2015 Open Knowledge Labs Newsletter: A Very Special Holiday Edition of the Open Knowledge Labs Newsletter. We hope that all of our readers, volunteers, team members & contributors have a great holiday season. Labs is...

Welcome to the second Labs Newsletter of 2015! There has been excellent progress on various open data tools and initiatives across the Open Knowledge network since the last newsletter. Let’s take a look: Labs Still <3 Discourse Open Knowledge is in the process of centralizing...

As software developers, we are always looking for data to solve a problem or address a shortcoming. It’s just how we’re wired. So, you heard of open data [1], and now you’re excited to go exploring and get the open data needed for the project....

Give Me Text! In a previous post, I detailed a web service where you can throw documents of many kinds at it, and get text in return. We’ve now given this service a name, “Give Me Text!”, and a nice URL at http://givemetext.okfnlabs.org/ for both...