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 […]
Belfast Hacks & Hackers – the video
As we’ve previously reported, the Belfast Hacks and Hackers Hack Day in November was a great success with some brilliant projects emerging, and we’re thrilled to post this video, courtesy of the School of Media, Film and Journalism at the University of Ulster. Enjoy! Hacks and Hackers Hack Day Belfast short film, by Eleaner Mulholland […]
Hacks & Hackers RBI: The video
Media reporter Rachel McAthy has produced this excellent video from last month’s Hacks & Hackers Hack Day at RBI. View it on Journalism.co.uk, or below. More on the event at this link.
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 and Hackers Dublin: Data and the Dail
[Video: courtesy of Cathal Furey and Dave Gunnigan.] “Dublin can be heaven, at a quarter past eleven and a stroll in Stephens Green, there’s no need to worry, there’s no need to hurry, you’re a king and the lady’s a queen…” Onwards and downwards we headed towards Dublin, as part of our UK & Ireland […]
Belfast Hacks & Hackers: a roundup
November was a hectic month so the blog posts have been a little tardy – apologies! After a full hacks and hackers day with the wonderful crowd in Lichfield #hhhlich we set off and sailed overnight to Belfast with a full force gale – force 11 to be precise! The Titanic memorabilia available on board […]
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 […]
Hacks/Hackers London
First of all, the Iraq War Logs: Round One – The Cleaning Documents, records and words all hugely intimidating in their vastness. But some tools to help are MySQL, Ultraedit and Google Refine. But this stage is incredibly frustrating. Round Two – The Problem How do you tackle the types of documents? There was even […]
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 […]