Posts Tagged ‘Cabinet Office’

If you follow Scrape_No10 on twitter you will be receiving all the meetings, gifts and hospitalities received at No.10 by ministers, special advisers and permanent secretaries. If you follow #Scrape10 then you should be getting those as well as all the tweets relating to any item of data. The current database should be tweeted out [...]

Seeing as I like to fly in the face of tradition, I’m going to turn things on it’s head and write a blog post of how I did it before I publish what “it” actually is. That is, I have scraped all the Cabinet Office spending data, cleaned it up and extracted it. But before [...]

The Cabinet Office, in a move towards greater transparency, are attempting to publish all their data online. This isn’t really news but I don’t think news organizations are looking at this data so I’m scraping it and seeing what it has to offer. So as an exercise I’m scraping the page where ministerial gifts, hospitality, travel and [...]