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Hacks meet Hackers – 16th July 2010

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

a Hacks meet Hackers group hard at work

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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