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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 will go into the Big Data Studio at Globant to learn and share experiences related to a branch that is changing the way we tell stories: data visualization.
(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 Aires se mete en el Big Data Studio de Globant para compartir un encuentro de aprendizaje e intercambio de experiencias relacionadas con una rama que está cambiando la forma de mostrar historias.
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 media and democracy, and the founder of HackDemocracy.org. At the meeting, we will also announce two upcoming meetings, one on Big Data and the other on Google Fusion Tables.
(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 to learn about available tools to do so.
In a very pleasant atmosphere journalists, media publishers, designers, communication managers, and programmers shared plenty of empanadas and sodas, possibly in the only space of its kind in Latin America, AreaTres Soho.
(english post here)
La mañana soleada del sábado 14 de abril era ideal para salir a correr. Pero en este caso no se trataba de cuerpos bien entrenados físicamente (aunque también los había) sino más bien intelectualmente preparados para un buen hackatón. Convocados por Hacks/Hackers Buenos Aires cerca de 45 personas se juntaron en Buenos Aires, Argentina, en AreaTres Soho para trabajar sobre la resolución de un problema de visualización de relaciones complejas a través de líneas de tiempos y para familiarizarse con herramientas disponibles.
We believe that software can be used to tell stories in ways unthinkable for traditional journalism. Several journalists, designers and software developers related with Hacks/Hackers Buenos Aires are working on projects where they need to visualize data in time lines. We need tools to develop automatic or semi-automatic timelines that could be combined with other variables, to gather valuable insights from the data.
Hacks/Hackers Buenos Aires proposes to build new applications (like this one above) that can help visualize data “over time”.
(Post en español)
Yes, we have grown. Maybe too fast. Hacks/Hackers Buenos Aires has reached 470 members and continues to grow. The Buenos Aires group, founded in April of this year, and bringing together journalists and software programmers, has realized a series of activities in this city, crossing the borders of Latin America, and finally reaching Europe. Several projects generated within that space have taken shape through collaborative efforts.
(English post)
Sí, hemos crecido. Tal vez demasiado rápido. Hacks/Hackers Buenos Aires llega a casi 470 inscriptos, y sigue subiendo. El capítulo de Buenos Aires que reune periodistas y programadores de software fundado en abril de este año propuso una serie de actividades que explotaron en esta ciudad, traspasaron las fronteras por América latina, y finalmente por Europa. También han tomado forma algunos de los proyectos generados en el espacio, con esfuerto y trabajo colaborativo.
Post en español acá!
We finally did it! About 40 people (including journalists, software programmers, and militants from Argentine human rights organizations) disembarked last August 13th at the Hacks/Hackers Buenos Aires hackathon, which took place within the mega-exhibition Tecnópolis. The idea was to work all day on Mapa76.info, a software project for the automatic extraction and visualization of data from text documents. The software is focused on analyzing the trials of Argentina´s last military dictatorship, which ruled between 1976 and 1983.
English post here!
Finalmente, ¡lo hicimos! Unas 40 personas (entre periodistas, programadores de software y militantes de organismos de Derechos Humanos de Argentina) desembarcamos el pasado 13 de agosto en el hackatón de Hacks/Hackers Buenos Aires, ocurrido dentro de la megamuestra Tecnópolis. La idea fue trabajar durante todo el día sobre Mapa76.info, un proyecto de software de extracción automática de datos y visualización desde documentos de texto. El software está centrado en analizar los juicios de la última Dictadura Militar argentina, ocurrida entre 1976 y 1983.