Interesting Snippets from 2014-04-04

• Dat

  dat is an open source tool that enables the sharing of large datasets, the goal being a collaboration flow similar to what git offers for source code.

• scrapinghub/portia · GitHub

  Portia is a tool for visually scraping web sites without any programming knowledge. Just annotate web pages with a point and click editor to indicate what data you want to extract, and portia will learn how to scrape similar pages from the site. Portia has a web based UI served by a Twisted server, so you can install it on almost any modern platform.

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