ScraperWiki is sad to hear that Guardian Local is being wound down, just over a year after its public launch. We’ve had the good fortune to work with the talented Guardian Local journalists at three of our Hacks & Hackers events: in Cardiff, Leeds and Glasgow. We would like to say a particular thank you […]
Hacks & Hackers Glasgow: the BBC College of Journalism video
Last month we celebrated the final leg of our UK & Ireland Hacks & Hackers tour in Glasgow, at an event hosted by BBC Scotland and supported by BBC College of Journalism and Guardian Open Platform. You can read more about it here. Other coverage includes: Guardian Local (Edinburgh) Guardian Developer blog The BBC College […]
Hacks & Hackers Cardiff: the video
Gavin Owen, a recent postgraduate student at the Skillset Media Academy Wales, has produced this excellent video from the Hacks & Hackers Hack Day in Cardiff last month. Read about the projects here, and watch what the journalists and programmers got up to, below:
New event! Hacks & Hackers Glasgow (#hhhglas)
Calling journalists, bloggers, programmers and designers in Scotland! Scraperwiki is pleased to announce another hacks & hackers hack day: in Glasgow. BBC Scotland is hosting and sponsoring the one day event, with support from BBC College of Journalism. As with our other UK hack days, Guardian Open Platform is providing the prizes. Web developers and […]
New event! Hacks and Hackers Hack Day Cardiff (#hhhCar)
The UK Hacks & Hackers tour carries on – into 2011. Our first stop: Wales. Scraperwiki, which provides award-winning tools for screen scraping,data mining and visualisation, will hold a one day practical hack day* at the Atrium in Cardiff on Friday 11 March, 2011. Web developers and designers will pair up with journalists and bloggers […]
Belfast Hacks & Hackers – the video
As we’ve previously reported, the Belfast Hacks and Hackers Hack Day in November was a great success with some brilliant projects emerging, and we’re thrilled to post this video, courtesy of the School of Media, Film and Journalism at the University of Ulster. Enjoy! Hacks and Hackers Hack Day Belfast short film, by Eleaner Mulholland […]
Scraperwiki launches first student event in Liverpool
Following on from the success of the professional Liverpool Hacks and Hackers event in July, Scraperwiki, in partnership with Open Labs, is running a “Student Edition” of the Hacks and Hackers Hack Day for students from both LJMU’s School of Journalism and the School of Computing & Mathematical Sciences. It will take place in Liverpool […]
Video: Leeds Hacks & Hackers Hack Day
Here are a few video interviews from yesterday’s Hacks and Hackers Hack Day Leeds, with various participants and Sarah Hartley from Guardian Local. Follow this link for a write-up of all the projects.
Leeds Hacks and Hackers Hack Day: Planning maps; cutting up Leeds; researching brownfield; and finding the city’s blogging pulse
It was to West Yorkshire for the fifth stop on Scraperwiki’s UK & Ireland Hacks & Hacker tour, at Old Broadcasting House in the excellent city of Leeds. A varied crowd turned out for yesterday’s hack day hosted by nti Leeds, and also sponsored by Guardian Open Platform and Guardian Local and Leeds Trinity Centre […]
Hacks/Hackers London meetup to discuss Iraq War logs
Scraperwiki will be supporting the November Hacks/Hackers London meetup at 7pm on Wednesday 24th November 2010 at The Irish Club, 2-4 Tudor Street, EC4Y 0AA, London. A few tickets are still available, but places are filling fast. Information and booking on meetup.com at this link Schedule 7.00pm: The data journalism behind the Iraq War Logs […]