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Re:Ask HN: Do you have any code or projects of your own you ... by danohuiginn on Thursday April 30, 2009 @04:51AM (#586567)
Two projects. One is scraping and indexing data on corporations registered in tax havens, mainly for the purpose of helping transparency researchers follow the activities and connections of businessmen, politicians, etc. I've done Panama, and am now working on a couple of others:

http://ohuiginn.net/panama

http://www.ohuiginn.net/mt/2008/12/opening_up_a_tax_haven.ht...

The second project is building a decent interface to the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. The current edition is online, charging ~$200/year for access, but the first edition is out of copyright, sitting on archive.org, and just waiting for somebody to make it accessible without the need to download several GB of scans.

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Re:Ask HN: Do you have any code or projects of your own you ... by biohacker42 on Thursday April 30, 2009 @11:57AM (#586969)
Those are both great ideas. Please consider a donate doohickey for each project. I would gladly contribute to both.
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Re:Ask HN: Do you have any code or projects of your own you ... by Agathos on Thursday April 30, 2009 @01:29PM (#587095)
You're my hero now. Mining financial disclosures is right at the top of my list of projects that need doing.
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