Web Scraping

• Pisceans and October Babies More Likely to Become Poets. Scraping Wikipedia Reveals All

  8 September 2011   Tags: Web Scraping     Ruby     JavaScript    
  This is the second in a series of articles looking into whether when you were born affects your future. In the previous article I looked at Nobel laureates, which are, of course, from a range of fields. Now it is time to focus on just one discipline with poets. I have again used ScraperWiki to sc...   Read More
  
  

• Does When You Were Born Affect Your Chance of Becoming a Nobel Laureate? Scraping Wikipedia to Find Out

  24 August 2011   Tags: Web Scraping     Ruby    
  There has been a lot of talk in the UK recently about whether when you were born affects your schooling. Lots of teachers have noticed how pupils born at the end of the Summer often struggle compared with those born in the Autumn, which makes sense because the latter group are almost a year older...   Read More