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Help Get Olympic Data off the Start Line

As part of Media2012 we’ll be running (no pun intended) a Hacks and Hackers Data Journalism workshop. It’s part of the Abandon Normal Devices Festival. It’ll be on 2nd October from 11:00-17:00 at FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology) Medialab, 88 Wood Street, Liverpool, L1 4DQ. So if you’re interested in sports data and want […]

Knight Foundation finance ScraperWiki for journalism

ScraperWiki is the place to work together on data, and it is particularly useful for journalism. We are therefore very pleased to announce that ScraperWiki has won the Knight News Challenge! The Knight Foundation are spending $280,000 over 2 years for us to improve ScraperWiki as a platform for journalists, and to run events to bring together journalists […]

A reluctant goodbye to Guardian Local

ScraperWiki is sad to hear that Guardian Local is being wound down, just over a year after its public launch. We’ve had the good fortune to work with the talented Guardian Local journalists at three of our Hacks & Hackers events: in Cardiff, Leeds and Glasgow. We would like to say a particular thank you […]

Student scraping in Liverpool: football figures and flying police

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Event: Hacks and Hackers Hack Day Lichfield (#hhhlich)

We have another event to announce, as part of Scraperwiki’s UK & Ireland tour. We’re going to Lichfield, Staffordshire! In partnership with Lichfield District Council, we’re holding a hacks and hackers hack day at Best Western the George Hotel 12-14 Bird Street, Lichfield WS13 6PR on Thursday 11th November (*note venue change*). The event is […]

New event: Hacks and Hackers Hack Day Belfast (#hhhbel)

We’re pleased to announce another date on our Hacks and Hackers Hack Day tour. Today, the booking page goes live for our visit to Belfast: Saturday November 13th 2010, at the University of Ulster. Belfast tickets at this link It’s a chance for web developers and designers to pair up with journalists and bloggers to […]

Event: Hacks and Hackers Hack Day – Birmingham

We’re happy to announce we’re running a Hacks and Hackers Hack Day in Birmingham, sponsored by Birmingham Science Park Aston, Digital Birmingham, the National Union of Journalists and NHS Local.  It will take place on Friday July 23, 2010 from 9.30am to 8pm at Birmingham Science Park Aston Faraday Wharf, Holt Street. The *free* hack […]

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