Posts Tagged ‘Hacks’

I have just stumbled on this lovely video on data driven journalism via O’Reilly Radar.

‘Journalists are coping with the rising information flood by borrowing data visualization techniques from computer scientists, researchers and artists. Some newsrooms are already beginning to retool their staffs and systems to prepare for a future in which data becomes a medium. But how do we communicate with data, how can traditional narratives be fused with sophisticated, interactive information displays?’

Journalism in the Age of Data from Geoff McGhee on Vimeo.

You can watch the full version with annotations and links at datajournalism.stanford.edu.

Hacks meet Hackers a joint Open Labs@LJMU, Scraperwiki, Liverpool Daily Post & Echo event.

Hacks Meet Hackers saw over 40 journalists and programmers put into the same room at the Art and Design Academy to see what they could produce in just one day’s work.

The challenge – to ‘scrape’ the web for freely available but hard to access data and use it to produce a story, feature or even a new service.

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Open Labs in partnership with Scraperwiki and Liverpool Daily Post & Liverpool Echo are proud to annouce Hacks Meet Hackers - a free hack day for developers and journalists.

Hacks meet Hackers is a practical event where web developers and designers pair up with journalists and bloggers to produce a number of projects and stories based on public data.

You can find out more about the day and sign up over at the Scraperwiki blog http://blog.scraperwiki.com/