[ddj] data-driven-journalism Digest, Vol 17, Issue 7

Mon Aug 27 12:09:20 UTC 2012

Looks good indeed.. Thanks!
Best,
Wouter

2012/8/27 Sergey Vershinin <svershin at gmail.com>

> Good day everyone,
>
> I ran across a new online data analysis start-up that might come in handy
> for those of you not fond of SPSS et al:
>
> https://www.statwing.com/
>
> Although still in BETA, the demo looks very promising.
>
> Best regards,
> SV
>
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>> Today's Topics:
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>>    1. Fwd: [NICAR-L] web-scraping software - list on Google Docs
>>       (Liliana Bounegru)
>>    2. PDF to Excel (or Numbers, or Google Spreadsheet)
>>       (Diana Assennato Botello)
>>    3. Re: PDF to Excel (or Numbers, or Google Spreadsheet) (Tommy Kaas)
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>> Message: 1
>> Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2012 10:38:33 +0200
>> From: Liliana Bounegru <bounegru at ejc.net>
>> Subject: [ddj] Fwd: [NICAR-L] web-scraping software - list on Google
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>> Hello everyone,
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>> I thought this list of scraping software and tools might be useful to some
>> of you.
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>> Best,
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>> Liliana
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>> From: Ed Ramthun <ERamthun at afscme.org>
>> Date: 26 July 2012 14:08
>> Subject: [NICAR-L] web-scraping software - list on Google Docs
>> To: NICAR-L at po.missouri.edu
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>> Scott Wilson of http://screen-scraper.com/ has created a useful
>> comparison
>> of web-scraping software and posted it as a public doc on Google Docs:
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>> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AsaY3Pb1lTh1dERtbWtTN0U3REgtYlNld0stV0NCV1E#gid=0
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>> Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2012 11:54:55 +0200
>> From: Diana Assennato Botello <lamajavestida at gmail.com>
>> Subject: [ddj] PDF to Excel (or Numbers, or Google Spreadsheet)
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>> Hey guys, yesterday I needed a good converter from PDF to Google
>> Spreadsheet.
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>> I tried this online free service <http://pdftoexcelonline.com/> to create
>> an xls.
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>> The conversion was not that bad, but I was wondering if you guys have any
>> recommendation for a newbie.
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>> Thanks!
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>> Diana
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>> http://diana.assennato.eu/
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>> Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2012 12:50:12 +0200
>> From: Tommy Kaas <tommybirchkaas at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [ddj] PDF to Excel (or Numbers, or Google Spreadsheet)
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>> Hi Diana
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>> What works depends a lot on the quality of the pdf.
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>> I have had some luck with: www.cometdocs.com
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>>
>>
>> I also have the free xpdf on my computer ? you have to run it from the
>> command line.
>>
>> http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/
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>> (An old manual from IRE: *http://tinyurl.com/8e5sfs7)*
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>> * *
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>> If the pdf file is created be scanning a page and saving it as a
>> ?picture?,
>> none of these tools will do. Then you must use an OCR application. There
>> are a number of tools. I have had most luck with ABBYY FineReader. It
>> costs, but it?s possible to download a free trial version:
>> https://store.abbyyeu.com/cgi-bin/dlreg/ml=EN?ID=FR11PETB**
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>> * *
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>> Good luck,
>>
>> Tommy
>>
>> 2012/8/27 Diana Assennato Botello <lamajavestida at gmail.com>
>>
>> > Hey guys, yesterday I needed a good converter from PDF to Google
>> > Spreadsheet.
>> >
>> > I tried this online free service <http://pdftoexcelonline.com/> to
>> create
>> > an xls.
>> >
>> > The conversion was not that bad, but I was wondering if you guys have
>> any
>> > recommendation for a newbie.
>> >
>> > Thanks!
>> >
>> > Diana
>> >
>> > http://diana.assennato.eu/
>> >
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