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Scraping for Journalism: A Guide for Collecting Data - ProPublica - 1 views

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    If you are a complete novice and have no short-term plan to learn how to code, it may still be worth your time to find out about what it takes to gather data by scraping web sites -- so you know what you're asking for if you end up hiring someone to do the technical work for you. How to get data from a PDF, for example
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Data Scraping Wikipedia with Google Spreadsheets « OUseful.Info, the blog… - 0 views

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    Prompted in part by a presentation I have to give tomorrow as an OU eLearning community session (I hope some folks turn up - the 90 minute session on Mashing Up the PLE - RSS edition is the only reason I'm going in…), and in part by Scott Leslie's compelling programme for a similar duration Mashing Up your own PLE session (scene scetting here: Hunting the Wily "PLE"), I started having a tinker with using Google spreadsheets as for data table screenscraping.
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