https://blog.scraperwiki.com/2010/07/healthy-leisurely-scraping-at-hacks-and-hackers-hack-day-birmingham/ Extract tables from PDFs and scrape the web Thu, 14 Jul 2016 16:12:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.6 https://blog.scraperwiki.com/2010/07/healthy-leisurely-scraping-at-hacks-and-hackers-hack-day-birmingham/#comment-500 Thu, 14 Oct 2010 16:05:11 +0000 http://blog.scraperwiki.com/?p=758213728#comment-500 […] event just one of a number of similar days around the UK.  The successes in Birmingham and Liverpool amongst others, mean that tomorrow should be […]

]]> https://blog.scraperwiki.com/2010/07/healthy-leisurely-scraping-at-hacks-and-hackers-hack-day-birmingham/#comment-499 Tue, 05 Oct 2010 12:46:09 +0000 http://blog.scraperwiki.com/?p=758213728#comment-499 […] I was recently contacted by ‘ScraperWiki’ who have an event in Manchester called ‘Hacks and Hackers Hack Day’, they say: We hope to attract ‘hacks’ and ‘hackers’ from all different types of backgrounds: people from big media organisations, as well as individual online publishers and freelancers… The aim is to show journalists how to use programming and design techniques to create online news stories and features; and vice versa, to show programmers how to find, develop, and polish stories and features. All sorts of data was scraped and played with at our past events: in Liverpool, projects included mashes of police, libraries and courts data. Birmingham saw lots of health-related projects, as well as scraping of political party donor and leisure centre inf…. […]

]]> https://blog.scraperwiki.com/2010/07/healthy-leisurely-scraping-at-hacks-and-hackers-hack-day-birmingham/#comment-498 Fri, 24 Sep 2010 07:54:34 +0000 http://blog.scraperwiki.com/?p=758213728#comment-498 […] What happens on the day? The aim is to show journalists how to use programming and design techniques to create online news stories and features; and vice versa, to show programmers how to find, develop, and polish stories and features. All sorts of data was scraped and played with at our past events: in Liverpool, projects included mashes of police, libraries and courts data. Birmingham saw lots of health-related projects, as well as scraping of political party donor and leisure centre inf…. […]

]]> https://blog.scraperwiki.com/2010/07/healthy-leisurely-scraping-at-hacks-and-hackers-hack-day-birmingham/#comment-497 Mon, 13 Sep 2010 12:02:59 +0000 http://blog.scraperwiki.com/?p=758213728#comment-497 […] What happens on the day? The aim is to show journalists how to use programming and design techniques to create online news stories and features; and vice versa, to show programmers how to find, develop, and polish stories and features. All sorts of data was scraped and played with at our past events: in Liverpool, projects included mashes of police, libraries and courts data. Birmingham saw lots of health-related projects, as well as scraping of political party donor and leisure centre inf…. […]

]]> https://blog.scraperwiki.com/2010/07/healthy-leisurely-scraping-at-hacks-and-hackers-hack-day-birmingham/#comment-496 Mon, 13 Sep 2010 08:58:28 +0000 http://blog.scraperwiki.com/?p=758213728#comment-496 […] What happens on the day? The aim is to show journalists how to use programming and design techniques to create online news stories and features; and vice versa, to show programmers how to find, develop, and polish stories and features. All sorts of data was scraped and played with at our past events: in Liverpool, projects included mashes of police, libraries and courts data. Birmingham saw lots of health-related projects, as well as scraping of political party donor and leisure centre inf…. […]

]]> https://blog.scraperwiki.com/2010/07/healthy-leisurely-scraping-at-hacks-and-hackers-hack-day-birmingham/#comment-495 Mon, 06 Sep 2010 10:48:43 +0000 http://blog.scraperwiki.com/?p=758213728#comment-495 […] and Hackers Hack Day actually entails, please have a look at our coverage from Liverpool and Birmingham. Possibly related posts: (automatically generated)Video: Liverpool Hacks and Hackers Hack DayEvent: […]

]]> https://blog.scraperwiki.com/2010/07/healthy-leisurely-scraping-at-hacks-and-hackers-hack-day-birmingham/#comment-494 Mon, 06 Sep 2010 09:05:28 +0000 http://blog.scraperwiki.com/?p=758213728#comment-494 […] What happens on the day? The aim is to show journalists how to use programming and design techniques to create online news stories and features; and vice versa, to show programmers how to find, develop, and polish stories and features. All sorts of data was scraped and played with at our past events: in Liverpool, projects included mashes of police, libraries and courts data. Birmingham saw lots of health-related projects, as well as scraping of political party donor and leisure centre inf…. […]

]]> https://blog.scraperwiki.com/2010/07/healthy-leisurely-scraping-at-hacks-and-hackers-hack-day-birmingham/#comment-493 Tue, 27 Jul 2010 11:17:18 +0000 http://blog.scraperwiki.com/?p=758213728#comment-493 […] some brief scene-setting presentations, and individual expressions of areas of interest, the attendees split into 5 topic-based groups. They […]

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