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Cardiff Hacks and Hackers Hacks Day

What’s occurin’? Loads in fact, at our first Welsh Hacks and Hackers Hack Day! From schools from space to catering colleges with a Food Safety Standard of 2, we had an amazing day. Check out the video by Gavin Owen: We got five teams: Co-Ordnance – This project aimed to be a local business tracker. […]

Spot and Normalize Inconsistent Measures

Here’s an example of why you have to be very careful when scraping, and why your normal run-of-the-mill technology that makes assumptions won’t cut it: One of our super-users, Julian Todd, decided to scrape the Vehicle Certification Agency (VCA) website on new car fuel consumption and exhaust emissions figures. And he spotted this: And another […]

Hacks/Hackers London

First of all, the Iraq War Logs: Round One – The Cleaning Documents, records and words all hugely intimidating in their vastness. But some tools to help are MySQL, Ultraedit and Google Refine. But this stage is incredibly frustrating. Round Two – The Problem How do you tackle the types of documents? There was even […]

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