Idle priority: data project contributions

I will mention two here, so that I won't forget them. One is new, that sounds more interesting (of course, new things, always ...)

Amnesty Decoders (update: false trail...)

"Join a global network of digital volunteers helping us research and expose human rights violations."

This is actually something that deceived me big time:

https://decoders.amnesty.org/

They want you! To click on sections of satellite imagery where villages (artificial structures) are present. Hm... I would have thought people (with some proficiency) can contribute to the image analysis with code :(
I wonder why these projects don't end up on Kaggle. Or do they?
This task is absolutely crying out for automatisation ...

... and another one, which I actually started doing something with, from the past:

Open Corporates

https://opencorporates.com/

It is a large database, commercially available for companies - that's how they make their living. It is backed by paid coders as well as enthusiasts, their meetup if someone wants a bit of hacking for good (they do/did provide free means of accessing the data as well, especially for contribution) is at:

http://www.meetup.com/London-Open-Data-Missions/

I never found the time again, so my bot is still 'booting', but would have been nice to. Should.

The task is to create bots, in Python, which do the web scraping (in my days, it happened with BeautifulSoup), and crack up the data (through multiple steps) to extract relevant attributes.

Their stuff is helpful for those doing data journalism, and there are hopes it can help to cut back and/or eliminate corruption hidden behind the ownership graphs.