The Data Wrangling Blog

This is the first of regular updates on Labs project http://data.okfn.org/ and summarizes some of the changes and improvements over the last few weeks. 1. Refactor of site layout and focus. We've done a refactor of the site to have stronger focus on the data....

Our next Open Humanities Hangout will take place next Tuesday, 28th May. This is the latest in the series of regular hangouts we've been organizing over the past few months with people interested in tapping in to the growing amount of open cultural data and...

Nomenklatura is a simple service that makes it easy to maintain a canonical list of entities such as persons, companies or event streets and to match messy input, such as their names against that canonical list – for example, matching Acme Widgets, Acme Widgets Inc...

This is an update on PublicBodies.org - a Labs project whose aim is to provide a "URL for every part of Government": http://publicbodies.org/ PublicBodies.org is a database and website of "Public Bodies" – that is Government-run or controlled organizations (which may or may not have...

I'm playing around with some large(ish) CSV files as part of a OpenSpending related data investigation to look at UK government spending last year -- example question: which companies were the top 10 recipients of government money? (More details can be found in ">this issue...