Category Archives: events

100 Years of history…and I just hope that we do it justice…

Posted on February 2, 2012 by

Columbia University, arguably the best Journalism school in the world is giving us the opportunity of a lifetime. We are hosting our first ever US event (Journalism Data Camp #jdcny)  and its their first hackathon in a proud 100 year … Continue reading →

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Journalism Data Camp NY potential data sets

Posted on February 2, 2012 by

Here is a review of some of the datasets that have been submitted for the Columbia Journalism Data Camp this Friday. This list is only for backup in case not enough ideas show up with people on the day (never … Continue reading →

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“the impact on our industry only begins this weekend” says Susan E McGregor, Professor at the world’s foremost school of journalism

Posted on February 1, 2012 by

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 … Continue reading →

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Happy New Year and Happy New York!

Posted on January 3, 2012 by

We are really pleased to announce that we will be hosting our very first US two day Journalism Data Camp event in conjunction with the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University and supported by the Knight Foundation on … Continue reading →

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Scraping the protests with Goldsmiths

Posted on December 9, 2011 by

Zarino here, writing from carriage A of the 10:07 London-to-Liverpool (the wonders of the Internet!). While our new First Engineer, drj, has been getting to grips with lots of the under-the-hood changes which’ll make ScraperWiki a lot faster and more … Continue reading →

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Seize the Data Day with Open Knowledge Foundation

Posted on December 1, 2011 by

On December 3rd at the Barbican Centre in London, the Open Knowledge Foundation will be inviting everyone and anyone who can wrangle up a good bit of data or wrangle the wranglers of data, to a Seize the Data event. … Continue reading →

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With Tools, Tables and Tours: We’re Looking to Liberate Data Across the US

Posted on November 14, 2011 by

As part of the Knight News Challenge entry, we at ScraperWiki said we would roll out Journalism Data Camps across the U.S. We had done what we called “Hacks and Hackers Hack Day” events across the U.K. and Ireland, bringing journalists and coders together. This happened at the … Continue reading →

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Solving Healthcare Problems with Open Source Software

Posted on November 11, 2011 by

This year, EHealth Insider brought a new feature to their annual EHI Live exhibition: a healthcare skunkworks that gave visitors the chance to ask questions about how open source software can be used to solve healthcare problems. ScraperWiki, of course had to be … Continue reading →

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Some ScraperWikiLovin’ at MozFest

Posted on November 7, 2011 by

This weekend saw ideas made reality, collaborations fostered and the future web bloom. The Mozilla Festival was all about making the web and making it happen in two days! Here at ScraperWiki we like doing that with data, so as … Continue reading →

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Growing back to the Future: Allotments in the UK, open data stories and interventions

Posted on October 31, 2011 by

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, … Continue reading →

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