This is a guest blog post from Farida Vis. She attended EuroHack at the Open Government Data Camp 2011. It consisted of a series of short talks combined with plenty of opportunities for hacking in groups in the second part the workshop. On the day, we were given an introduction to data driven journalism by data journalist Nicolas Kayser-Brill, who […]
Scraping Government Data for the Open Government Data Camp
Come one, come all and gather ye ’round the fantastical scraping table at the Open Government Data Camp at Warsaw. Here you will see such mythical beasts the Irish man with the gift of the gab and the German obsessed with numbers and efficiency he has become part database. So head to Soho Factory in Warsaw, […]
Scraping New Frontiers
Today is Columbus Day in the US (yes, I’m working regardless). So I’ve decided to write a post about discovery. This has been my first full week in America. I have toiled Heathrow Terminal 5, battled through the baffling New York subway and scaled the mountains of food to find, well, not the promised land. […]