- Raised grant led by Amazon, Apr 2021
About
WikiShark aims to develop a set of tools that will provide researchers with real-time access to meaningful, rich and context-inclusive metrics on emerging events throughout the world by analyzing raw data on Wikipedia. The platform will offer API access to high-level measures on emerging events and interface tools for visualization, exploration, and analysis. The goal is to enable scientific researchers to easily integrate these tools' output into their existing research without requiring advanced technical skills. WikiShark allows researchers to analyze Wikipedia traffic and trends quickly and effectively by instantly querying pageview traffic data, comparing traffic across articles, surfacing and analyzing trending topics, and easily leveraging findings for use in their own research.
Funding history · 1 round · $20K total
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- What is WikiShark's primary business?
- WikiShark provides a large-scale set of online tools for researchers to access and analyze real-time metrics on global events, primarily by transforming raw Wikipedia data into metrics for scientific modeling and analysis of human behavior.
- When was WikiShark founded?
- WikiShark was founded in January 2013.
- Where is WikiShark's headquarters located?
- WikiShark's headquarters is located in Jerusalem, Israel, at Hebrew University.
- Who are the co-founders of WikiShark?
- The co-founders of WikiShark are Elad Vardi and Lev Muchnik, both serving as Co-founder & CEO.
- What is WikiShark's primary sector?
- WikiShark's primary sector is Business Software.
- What types of customers does WikiShark target?
- WikiShark targets customers in Education and Higher Education.
- What is the current product stage of WikiShark?
- WikiShark's product is currently released.
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| Website | wikishark.com |
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| Wikidata | wikidata.org/wiki/Q108474123 |
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| Founded | 2021-4 |
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| Employees (exact) | 2 |
| Wikidata QID | Q108474123 |
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| Domain | wikishark.com |
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| QID | Q108474123 |
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| Subdomains | 3 |
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