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.
Hacks and Hackers Hack Day Manchester: Tweeting police, local gigs and Preston’s summer spend
We’re sure that Greater Manchester Police had us in mind when they set about tweeting 24 hours of calls on the eve of our Hacks and Hackers Hack Day Manchester. (Photos courtesy of Michael Brunton-Spall). It proved a fantastic data set to work with at our hack day on Friday 15th October at Vision+Media in […]
SOS! Hackers needed for transglobal ‘Hackathon’ in Birmingham
Emergency announcement: Digital Birmingham is hosting a transglobal ‘Hackathon’ in Birmingham, facilitated by Scraperwiki and in collaboration with hack events in Edmonton [Canada] and Seoul [Korea], with the aim of building a disaster situation app. BOOK TICKETS AT THIS LINK When? Wednesday 20th October 2010 – 14:00 to Thursday 21st October 14:00. We know this […]
Venue change for Manchester Hacks and Hackers Hack Day
Due to a couple of logistical reasons we have decided to change the venue for our Manchester Hacks and Hackers Hack Day on Friday 15th October. It will now be held at: Vision+Media, 100 Broadway, Salford, M50 2UW (Google Map) Nearest tram is Broadway. There are still a few hacker places left if you would […]