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New Orleans kicks off hackathon series

By Samantha Sunne Hacks/Hackers New Orleans held its first hackathon this week, digging into dirty assessment data, partial wetlands maps, unanswered recycling questions and other problems just waiting to be solved. The organizers partnered with ONA, which also opened a New Orleans group last year. The HH Nola group

Hacks/Hackers Denmark: Hackathon produces eight great projects

Hacks/Hackers Denmark had their first hackathon on reinventing journalism in May 2014. We were lucky to be hosted by CCI in Aarhus, Denmark. Take a look a what happened during the weekend. Get ideas, code and presentations from the eight projects developed at the Media Hack Days. http://storify.

Hacks/Hackers NYC: Download Investigative Journalism Icons for Free

SuperPACs. Drones. Gerrymandering. Dark Money. How do you quickly illustrate these concepts in a way that is meaningful and impactful to an audience of different education levels and cultural backgrounds? That was the challenge set out before a group of 60 volunteers at the February Hacks/Hackers NYC Investigative Journalism

Hacks/Hackers New Delhi: How to Visualize Big Data?

How to curate and present big data sets in India? A group of about 70 coders and journalists met for the first Hacks/Hackers New Delhi hackathon in order to answer that question. Attendees introduced themselves to the group and then pitched an idea for a data-driven story. Initial ideas

Hackathon{YAN} 2012: winners are announced :)

Hackathon{YAN} 2012 is already over , winners are announced. After working over their ideas for 24 hours on December 23, 37 teams presented their projects and prototypes of their ideas. In total more than 130 people took part in the Hackathon[YAN] 2012, which was the second large scale hackathon

Hacks/Hackers Bogota Develops New Digital Map: Mi Bogotá Verde

Mi Bogotá Verde, a new, crowdsourced digital map that will track solid waste disposal and other garbage concerns is just a few weeks away from going online in Bogotá. Hacks/Hackers Bogotá developed this map during its first hackathon Aug. 11. We got together with the idea of putting together

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