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Student scraping in Liverpool: football figures and flying police

A final Hacks & Hackers report to end 2010! Happy Christmas from everyone at ScraperWiki! Earlier this month ScraperWiki put on its first ever student event, at Liverpool John Moores University in partnership with Open Labs for students from both LJMU’s School of Journalism and the School of Computing & Mathematical Sciences, as well as […]

Hacks & Hackers RBI: Snow mashes, truckstops and moving home

Sarah Booker (@Sarah_Booker on Twitter), digital content and social media editor for the Worthing Herald series, has kindly  provided us with this guest blog from the recent  Scraperwiki B2B Hacks and Hackers Hack day at RBI. Pictures courtesy of RBI’s Adam Tinworth. Dealing with data is not new to me. Throughout my career I have […]

Hacks & Hackers Belfast: ‘You don’t realize how similar coding and reporting are until you watch a hack and a technologist work together to create something’

In November, Scraperwiki went to Belfast and participant Lyra McKee, CEO, NewsRupt (creators of the news app Qluso) has kindly supplied us with this account! The concept behind Hacks and Hackers, a global phenomenon, is simple: bring a bunch of hacks (journalists) and hackers (coders) together to build something really cool that other journalists and […]

Lichfield Hacks and Hackers: PFIs, plotting future care needs, what’s on in Lichfield and mapping flood warnings

By Philip John, Journal Local. This has been cross-posted on the Journal Local blog. It may be a tiny city but Lichfield has shown that it has some great talent at the Hacks and Hackers Hack Day. Sponsored by Lichfield District Council and Lichfield-based Journal Local, the day was held at the George Hotel and attended […]

Announcing The Big Clean, Spring 2011

We’re very excited to announce that we’re helping to organise an international series of events to convert not-very-useful, unstructured, non-machine-readable sources of public information into nice clean structured data. This will make it much easier for people to reuse the data, whether this is mixing it with other data sources (e.g. different sources of information […]

Event: Hacks and Hackers Hack Day – Birmingham

We’re happy to announce we’re running a Hacks and Hackers Hack Day in Birmingham, sponsored by Birmingham Science Park Aston, Digital Birmingham, the National Union of Journalists and NHS Local.  It will take place on Friday July 23, 2010 from 9.30am to 8pm at Birmingham Science Park Aston Faraday Wharf, Holt Street. The *free* hack […]

Event: ScraperWiki/LJMU Open Labs Liverpool Hack Day – Hacks Meet Hackers!

We’re happy to announce our next Hacks Meet Hackers event, to take place in Liverpool on Friday July 16, 2010 from 9.30am to 8pm at the Arts and Design Academy. The *free* hack day, sponsored by LJMU Open Labs and Liverpool Daily Post & Liverpool Echo, is for both developers and journalists. For additional sponsorship […]

Government data release: what’s still out there

James Ball Last week saw big steps forward in public data: on Monday, Prime Minister David Cameron wrote to all government departments, setting out a timetable for the release of a swathe of official datasets. On Wednesday, the first two (senior civil service pay and MRSA infection rates) appeared – but the real meat came […]

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