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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 … Continue reading
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Tagged #hhhliv, #hhhlivs, hacks and hackers, liverpool, liverpool john moores university, open labs
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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.
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Tagged hacks and hackers rbi, rbi, scraperwiki, video
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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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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Tagged hacks and hackers, journal local, lichfield
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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 … Continue reading
‘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 … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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Tagged birmingham, birmingham science park aston, digital birmingham, hacks and hackers
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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 … Continue reading
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Tagged events, hacks meet hackers, liverpool hack day, scraperwiki
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Government data release: what’s still out there
James Ball Last week saw big steps forward in public data: on Monday, Prime Minister David Cameron wrote to all government departments, setting out a timetable for the release of a swathe of official datasets. On Wednesday, the first two … Continue reading
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Tagged Anna Powell-Smith, data, David Cameron, IAR, open data, scraperwiki, Transparency Board
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