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 […]
The Web Data Revolution – a new future for journalism
This event hosted by The Guardian. They say: “The web not only gives easy access to billions of statistics on every matter – from MP’s expenses to the location of every public convenience in the UK – but also provides the tools to visualise said information, giving a clarity of voice and an equality of access […]
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 […]
Scraperwiki launches first student event in Liverpool
Following on from the success of the professional Liverpool Hacks and Hackers event in July, Scraperwiki, in partnership with Open Labs, is running a “Student Edition” of the Hacks and Hackers Hack Day for students from both LJMU’s School of Journalism and the School of Computing & Mathematical Sciences. It will take place in Liverpool […]
Video: Leeds Hacks & Hackers Hack Day
Here are a few video interviews from yesterday’s Hacks and Hackers Hack Day Leeds, with various participants and Sarah Hartley from Guardian Local. Follow this link for a write-up of all the projects.
Leeds Hacks and Hackers Hack Day: Planning maps; cutting up Leeds; researching brownfield; and finding the city’s blogging pulse
It was to West Yorkshire for the fifth stop on Scraperwiki’s UK & Ireland Hacks & Hacker tour, at Old Broadcasting House in the excellent city of Leeds. A varied crowd turned out for yesterday’s hack day hosted by nti Leeds, and also sponsored by Guardian Open Platform and Guardian Local and Leeds Trinity Centre […]
Hacks/Hackers London meetup to discuss Iraq War logs
Scraperwiki will be supporting the November Hacks/Hackers London meetup at 7pm on Wednesday 24th November 2010 at The Irish Club, 2-4 Tudor Street, EC4Y 0AA, London. A few tickets are still available, but places are filling fast. Information and booking on meetup.com at this link Schedule 7.00pm: The data journalism behind the Iraq War Logs […]
‘Where’s safe?’ Creating a tool to guide people in an emergency
A guest post by Paul Bradshaw (Help me investigate and publisher of Online Journalism Blog) It’s taken 15 hours – including sleep* – for a group of people in Birmingham to build a tool to help guide people in an emergency event. The tool runs on a mobile phone, allowing anyone involved in emergency planning […]
Scraperwiki/RBI launch first in-house Hacks & Hackers event – for B2Bs
Tickets are now available for a Scraperwiki hack day at Reed Business Information (RBI) on Monday 29th November in Quadrant House, Surrey, from 9.30am (registration) – 7.30 pm. Reserve your *free* place here B2B journalists, developers and designers are invited to attend the one-day ‘Hacks and Hackers’ event hosted and sponsored by RBI, B2B publisher […]
Video: Hacks and Hackers Hack Day Manchester
Hacks and Hackers Hack Day Manchester at Vision+Media in Salford, on 15th October 2010. Filmed (on a Flip) and edited by Joseph Stashko, who has kindly allowed us to re-publish the video here. A write-up of the day can be found at this link.