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Mariano Blejman

Journalism rebooted in Buenos Aires! #Hhba becomes 2nd largest group in the world

Around 700 people attended the three-day Hacks/Hackers BA Media Party, at Ciudad Cultural Konex, averaging around 400 participants per day. The largest gathering of journalists, editors, designers and software developers in Latin America brought together people from the interactive teams of The New York Times, The Guardian, and ProPublica,

Make history: Join the three-day festival @HacksHackersBA Media Party!

The planets aligned! The Media Party is coming Aug. 30-Sept. 1! Three days of keynotes, workshops and a giant hackathon in Buenos Aires. It’s an event bound to make history. Hacks/Hackers Buenos Aires invites journalists, publishers, software developers, designers and entrepreneurs to three days of keynotes, workshops, and

Histórico: ¡Vení a la fiesta de tres días @HacksHackers BA Media Party!

¡Se alinearon los planetas! ¡Se viene el Media Party! Llegan tres días de charlas, workshops y un hackatón en Buenos Aires, Argentina, en un evento que promete hacer historia. Hacks/Hackers Buenos Aires convoca a periodistas, editores, programadores de software, diseñadores y emprendedores a tres días intensivos para trabajar en

Big data: extraer y visualizar grandes volúmenes de datos

(English post coming) ****Trabajar con grandes volúmenes de datos permite ver acontecimientos que antes eran inimaginables: 900 millones de usuarios conectándose en Facebook, miles de taxis funcionando en tiempo real, eventos inesperados que se pueden medir en Twitter, terabytes de e-mails moviéndose de un continente al otro. Hacks/Hackers Buenos

Big data: extract and analize large volumes of data

** Working with large volumes of data lets us view events previously unimaginable. There are 900 million people connected on Facebook, hundred of taxis operating in real time, unexpected events tracked on Twitter and terabytes of e-mails moving from one continent to another. For our next meetup, Hacks/Hackers Buenos Aires

Storify in Buenos Aires! Applications to tell stories. Pre and post hacks.

At the upcoming meeting of Hacks/Hackers of Buenos Aires, we will be joined by Xavier Damman, the co-founder of Storify.com, a site that is changing the way we tell stories in the media and through social networks. Damman is an entrepreneur based in San Francisco, passionate about new

ShowTimeLine Complete! Hackathon on visualizing timelines with @HacksHackersBA

(Spanish post here) The sunny morning of Saturday, April 14th was ideal for jogging. But rather than exercising well-trained bodies, smart minds were warming up for a good hackathon. Forty-five people, invited by Hacks/Hackers Buenos Aires, met in Buenos Aires to work on visualizing complex relationships across timelines and