Corpwatch Croctail
- Logo
CrocTail provides an interface for browsing information about several hundred thousand U.S. publicly traded corporations and their foreign subsidiaries
- URL
- http://croctail.corpwatch.org/
- Keywords
- database, map, corporations, subsidiaries, SEC
- Project Current Phase
- Released
- Project Start Date
- Launch Date
- 2009
- Most Recent Update
- 2015
- Update Frequency
- yes
- Thematic Focus
- Finance
- Issue addressed
- Tracking corporate entities
- Geographic Focus
- World
Experience
How does a user interact with and navigate the project?
- Narrative
- Query
- yes
- Geographic Map
- yes
- Timelines
- Lists
- yes
- Network Visualisation
- Other Visualisation
- Raw Data
- yes
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 (US)
- Partners
Impact
Indicators of reach and impact of the project
- Target Audience
- Online Audience Reached
- Small Network
- no ( followers)
- Publisher's Twitter Followers
- Online Rank
- Google: 4 Alexa: 547,390 OSE Domain Authority Rank: 69/100 Marketing Grader Rank: 34/100 ()
- Online Rank (Publisher)
- Google: Alexa:
- News Source
- Some
- Offline Audience Reached
- N/A
- Outcome
- N/A
- Last updated
- 22/10/2015
- Attempts against the project
- N/A /
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
- No
- Open Data
- No
- Budget
- N/A
- Contracting
- N/A
- Risk Planning
- N/A
- Sustainability Planning
- N/A
Documented Practices
Documentation about project practices
: http://croctail.corpwatch.org/about.php
- Organise / Model Data
- http://croctail.corpwatch.org/about.php
Practices
How projects handle different aspects of data management
- Data Modeling
- List
- Ethical Collection
- N/A
- Ethical Storage
- Data Collection
- External Sources
- Data Collection
- Data Verification
- Spot Check
- Data Cleaning
- N/A
- Data Analysis
- Classification / Tagging / Categories / Linking
- Data Description
- Basic
- Data Licensing
- Public
- Ethical Publishing
- Signed project
- Ethical Publishing
- Data Publishing Mode
- Dump