After my previous post on how to scrap data off arabnet’s website and turn it into an interesting database, It’s time to share some basic analytic i did from that same database.

Those analytics are waiting to be turned into an infographic that can go viral. Please feel free to take that data and visualize it – i need some help in blogging in here ;p

You can download the data in a clean format using this link. There are only the info of 150 startup in here from arabnet’s database – so it may not be really representative of the actual startup scene in MENA but rather Arabnet’s outreach…which may or may not be a reflection of reality.

Finding talent and developers who can get a job done in just 12-hours is ArabNet’s mission during this digital summit. Investors will be keeping an eye on the Open Developer competition to identify the best engineering talent in the region.

This competition will take place during the Developer Days, part of the ArabNet Digital Summit 2012, from March 27th, at 8PM til 8AM the following day. Competitors are challenged to build a simple web application or a mobile app in just 12-hours!
The exciting part is that it is free and open to any developer, regardless of whether they are registered to attend the conference!

Since I am an arabnet official blogger and all – I was checking out something interesting to blog about and I ran into the startup database http://startupdb.arabnet.me and i thought it would be interesting to actually get some statistics about the start up scene and why not visualize it too.

It is really important data for business decisions and no one can fail to see its value.

This is why I scrapped it off the arabnet website using excel – no, i did not hack into their database and steal it – i scrapped it off – here is a wikipedia link to explain data scrapping and here is how you do it.