Corpwatch Croctail

	CrocTail provides an interface for browsing information about several hundred thousand U.S. publicly traded corporations and their foreign subsidiaries
Home page	http://croctail.corpwatch.org/
Approach	CrocTail uses the CorpWatch API to “scrape” data from the US Securities and Exchange Commission's database and processes it to create a well-structured interface for programs to query and process company and subsidiary data
Phase	Released
Tags	database, map, corporations, subsidiaries, and SEC
Practices	Collect

Launch Date	2009
Most Recent Update	2015
Update Frequency	true
Thematic Focus	Finance
Issue addressed	Tracking corporate entities
Geographic Focus	World

Experience

How does a user interact with and navigate the project?

Query	true
Geographic Map	true
Lists	true
Raw Data	true

Description

Summary of the project and its approach

	CrocTail provides an interface for browsing information parsed from SEC filings about several hundred thousand U.S. publicly traded corporations and their foreign subsidiaries.
Approach (How?)	CrocTail uses the CorpWatch API to “scrape” data from the US Securities and Exchange Commission's database and processes it to create a well-structured interface for programs to query and process company and subsidiary data
Language	English
Commissioner	Sunlight Foundation
Publisher	CorpWatch

Impact

Indicators of reach and impact of the project.

Target Audience : Online Audience Reached : Small Network Twitter : ( followers) Publisher's Twitter Followers : Online Rank : Google: 4 Alexa: 547390 OSE Domain Authority Rank: 69/100 Marketing Grader Rank: 34/100 () Online Rank (Publisher) : Google: Alexa: News Source : Some Offline Audience Reached : Outcome : Last updated : 22/10/2015 Attempts against the project : /

Technology

What tools and code were used to create the project?

Tech Best Practices: : : : Code Repository : : Tool : : : : Database : : Frontend : : : : : Backend : : : : : Data Format : : Data Standard : Technical Documentation URL : : Technical Architecture Documentation : Schema Documentation : https://gist.github.com/jpmckinney/6c9f23836b741c4887ab Design Documentation : API Documentation :

Data Sources

Data Sources : : : : : :

Team

Team size and expertise

Team Size : Small Team Experience : Research : Some Data Science : Dedicated Engineering : Outsourced Design : Outsourced

Project Methodology

What strategies were in place for managing the project?

Project Methodology : Traditional Open Source : false Open Data : false Budget : Contracting : Risk Planning : Sustainability Planning :

Documented Practices

Documentation about project practices

Organise

Practices

How projects handle different aspects of data management

Data Modeling : List Ethical Collection : Ethical Storage : Data Collection : External Sources Data Collection : Data Verification : Spot Check Data Cleaning : Data Analysis : Classification / Tagging / Categories / Linking Data Description : Basic Data Licensing : Public Ethical Publishing : Signed project Ethical Publishing : Data Publishing Mode : Dump