Here is a breakdown on what we are planning for Friday and Saturday… Click the image to see the PDF! Thank you
“the impact on our industry only begins this weekend” says Susan E McGregor, Professor at the world’s foremost school of journalism
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 with Knight News Challenge winner ScraperWiki this Friday and Saturday for their first Journalism Data […]
Happy New Year and Happy New York!
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 February 3rd and 4th 2012. We have been working with Emily Bell @emilybell, Director of […]
‘Big Data’ in the Big Apple
My colleague @frabcus captured the main theme of Strata New York #strataconf in his most recent blog post. This was our first official speaking engagement in the USA as a Knight News Challenge 2011 winner. Here is my twopence worth! At first we were a little confused at the way in which the week long […]
#newschallenge: ScraperWiki honoured to be invited to the Knight’s roundtable!
Last Thursday we were very excited to find out that we have been shortlisted by the Knight Foundation for its prestigious #newschallenge competition. This is a very big deal for us as it is such a highly respected organisation internationally. Over 1600 applications were entered in the first round. This was whittled down in the […]
Read all about it read all about it: “ScraperWiki gets on the Guardian front page…”
A data driven story by investigative journalist James Ball on lobbyist influence in the UK Parliament has made it on to the front page of the Guardian. What is exciting for us is that James Ball’s story is helped and supported by a ScraperWiki script that took data from registers across parliament that is located […]
Hacks and Hackers Dublin: Data and the Dail
[Video: courtesy of Cathal Furey and Dave Gunnigan.] “Dublin can be heaven, at a quarter past eleven and a stroll in Stephens Green, there’s no need to worry, there’s no need to hurry, you’re a king and the lady’s a queen…” Onwards and downwards we headed towards Dublin, as part of our UK & Ireland […]
Belfast Hacks & Hackers: a roundup
November was a hectic month so the blog posts have been a little tardy – apologies! After a full hacks and hackers day with the wonderful crowd in Lichfield #hhhlich we set off and sailed overnight to Belfast with a full force gale – force 11 to be precise! The Titanic memorabilia available on board […]
What could a journalist do with ScraperWiki? A quick guide
For non-programmers, a first look at ScraperWiki’s code could be a bit scary, but we want journalists and researchers to make use of the site, so we’ve set up a variety of initiatives to do that. Firstly, we’re setting up a number of Hacks and Hacker Days around the UK, with Liverpool as our first […]