[yes!, see below] On 25 October 2010 16:19, aidan <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Oct 25, 3:16 pm, David Jones <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 24 October 2010 22:35, [email protected] >> >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Ladies and Gents, >> > The plan for November's meeting is to get together for a Code Dojo! This >> > is >> > an opportunity for Pythoneers and Pythonistas of all levels to flex their >> > fingers and do some group coding with the aim of improving our coding >> > skills. In my limited experience, no matter what your level, everyone gets >> > to learn something new while having a bit of fun at the same time. >> >> Did you discuss _what_ you might do at a Dojo? >> I'm totally open to other suggestions, but here is one I've been >> thinking about a bit (and that i would like to try and turn into a >> larger project, so a "starter" kit / trial would be most welcome): >> >> It's basically scraping weather data to make it useful for climate analysis. >> >> Often the data is available from websites and such, the challenge is >> to get it into a form suitable for ccc-gistemp to use. > > Don't know if this is useful but we have created a platform for > scraping and then allowing open reuse for public data sets > As this request compliments our basic idea then Scraperwiki.com would > be intested to sponsor this idea with beer and pizza. > We also have some example weather scrapers which could be added to if > people are interested in this subject. > http://scraperwiki.com/tags/weather
Possibly Aidan forgets that he has met me. :) Yes, Aidan i have thought about using ScraperWiki for this project. A few months ago I started the scraper http://scraperwiki.com/scrapers/can-mayo-t/ and should obviously return to it. Your offer of beer and pizza is most welcome. Would we have to move to Liverpool, or would you be open to extending your ScraperWiki sponsorship to Manchester (which seems to be our city of choice at the moment; but as you may remember, I live in Sheffield). drj -- To post: [email protected] To unsubscribe: [email protected] Feeds: http://groups.google.com/group/python-north-west/feeds More options: http://groups.google.com/group/python-north-west
