Category Archives: events

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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Diggers and Dinosaurs – Scraping at the Mozilla Festival

Posted on October 17, 2011 by

In a complete paradigm shift of the epic battle between Godzilla and Mothra we are turning our backs on the old claymation medium and embracing the digital age where dinosaurs and diggers (yes, I am aware we are a machine … Continue reading →

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Amazing Places Scrapers Go – The Big Clean

Posted on October 14, 2011 by

Earlier this month, there’s been some underground scraping action happening in Central Europe. We noticed this spark of activity and upon further investigation it was revealed to be a spill over from The Big Clean. At the beginning of this … Continue reading →

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Scraping Government Data for the Open Government Data Camp

Posted on October 11, 2011 by

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 … Continue reading →

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#media2012: Hacking the Olympics

Posted on October 5, 2011 by

Last weekend, Scraperwiki hosted a ‘hacks and hackers’ event at FACT in Liverpool as part of Abandon Normal Devices (AND) Festival, focusing on scraping data related to the Olympics for the #media2012 network. There is plenty of information, plenty of … Continue reading →

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Help Get Olympic Data off the Start Line

Posted on September 19, 2011 by

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, … Continue reading →

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Driving the Digger Down Under

Posted on September 16, 2011 by

G’day, Henare here from the OpenAustralia Foundation – Australia’s open data, open government and civic hacking charity. You might have heard that we were planning to have a hackfest here in Sydney last weekend. We decided to focus on writing … Continue reading →

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CIJ Workshop in Blog Form!

Posted on July 21, 2011 by

Here’s an introduction to a little thing called ScraperWiki. Please watch it so that you don’t develop bad habits that could annoy the programmers you want helping you! OBJECTIVES FOR THIS WORKSHOP Have your own ScraperWiki account and understand all … Continue reading →

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