Columbia University, arguably the best Journalism school in the world is giving us the opportunity of a lifetime. We are hosting our first ever US event (Journalism Data Camp #jdcny) and its their first hackathon in a proud 100 year history. It is scary but very exciting! The campus is lovely and welcoming. Located in […]
Journalism Data Camp NY potential data sets
Here is a review of some of the datasets that have been submitted for the Columbia Journalism Data Camp this Friday. This list is only for backup in case not enough ideas show up with people on the day (never happens, but it’s always a fear). 1. Iowa accident reports The site http://accidentreports.iowa.gov contains all […]
#JDCNY Journalism Data Camp New York – Agenda (Fri 3rd and Sat 4th Feb)
Here is a breakdown on what we are planning for Friday and Saturday… Click the image to see the PDF! Thank you
“the impact on our industry only begins this weekend” says Susan E McGregor, Professor at the world’s foremost school of journalism
This is a guest blog post by Susan E. McGregor – Assistant Professor at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism Columbia University The Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is proud to be partnering with Knight News Challenge winner ScraperWiki this Friday and Saturday for their first Journalism Data […]
Happy New Year and Happy New York!
We are really pleased to announce that we will be hosting our very first US two day Journalism Data Camp event in conjunction with the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University and supported by the Knight Foundation on February 3rd and 4th 2012. We have been working with Emily Bell @emilybell, Director of […]
Scraping the protests with Goldsmiths
Zarino here, writing from carriage A of the 10:07 London-to-Liverpool (the wonders of the Internet!). While our new First Engineer, drj, has been getting to grips with lots of the under-the-hood changes which’ll make ScraperWiki a lot faster and more stable in the very near future, I’ve been deploying ScraperWiki out on the frontline, with […]
Have a Happy Open Data Day with ScraperWiki
Tomorrow is Open Data Day, and if you’re planning on hacking the web with the Open Knowledge Foundation or Random Hacks of Kindness or your own data hack of choice, here’s some fuel for your fight ( and if you’ve already driven our digger then check out the last video on our API so you […]
Seize the Data Day with Open Knowledge Foundation
On December 3rd at the Barbican Centre in London, the Open Knowledge Foundation will be inviting everyone and anyone who can wrangle up a good bit of data or wrangle the wranglers of data, to a Seize the Data event. So they could do with some screen scraping, data extracting, coding extraordinaires (i.e. you). So […]
With Tools, Tables and Tours: We’re Looking to Liberate Data Across the US
As part of the Knight News Challenge entry, we at ScraperWiki said we would roll out Journalism Data Camps across the U.S. We had done what we called “Hacks and Hackers Hack Day” events across the U.K. and Ireland, bringing journalists and coders together. This happened at the same time as HacksHackers in the U.S. — great minds and whatnot! Now we’re scaling up when it comes […]
Solving Healthcare Problems with Open Source Software
This year, EHealth Insider brought a new feature to their annual EHI Live exhibition: a healthcare skunkworks that gave visitors the chance to ask questions about how open source software can be used to solve healthcare problems. ScraperWiki, of course had to be one of the invited guests to exhibit at the skunkworks. So as is our way, we […]