There’s a term in technical circles called “software archaeology” – it’s when you spend time studying and reverse-engineering badly documented code, to make it work, or make it better. Scraper writing involves a lot of this stuff. ScraperWiki’s data scientists are well accustomed with a bit of archaeology here and there. But now, we want […]
“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 […]
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: 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 […]