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Hacks/Hackers Hacking @ ONA11 Recap

Hacks/Hackers’ first annual hack day at ONA11 brought journalists and developers together to make ideas real. We built on the success of last year’s Hacks/Hackers @ ONA hack day by bringing about 45 people together in Boston. They showed up with data sets; reporting, analysis and coding skills,

Trip to the Land of the Automatic Extraction of Data from Documents

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,

Hackathon in Tecnopolis Argentina: extracting data from documents

Post en español Hacks/Hackers Buenos Aires is announcing a hackathon (a day of programming between journalists and software developers) in order to work on Mapa76.Info, an Internet software for the automatic extraction and visualization of data from text documents. The hackathon will take place on Saturday, August 13,

Hackatón en Tecnópolis Argentina: extracción automática de datos desde documentos

English post here!**[ ]2** ** Hacks/Hackers Buenos Aires convoca a un hackatón (una jornada de programación entre periodistas y programadores de software) con el objetivo de trabajar sobre Mapa76.Info, un software de Internet para extracción y visualización automática de datos desde documentos de texto. En este caso el hackatón

Retención de datos en Demo Day / Visualización en HTML5 en Hackatón

This post is also in english De pronto, sucedieron dos eventos con apenas una semana de diferencia: un super “Demo Day” en Buenos Aires, y un mini-hackatón en Rosario, a 300 kilómetros de la capital argentina. El alemán Malte Spitz fue la figura central del segundo Hacks/Hackers Buenos Aires,

Buenos Aires Demo Day on June 8, followed by Hackathon @ Rosario on June 15-16

Lea este post en español The second meeting of Hacks/Hackers Buenos Aires – Demo Day will take place on June 8, and will be followed a week later on June 15 and 16 by our first hackathon in Rosario, which is located 300 kilometers from Buenos Aires, as part ofthe

Headline guessing site wins News+Gaming Hackathon in NYC

Julian Burgess‘s game, Whose Headline, won the News+Gaming Hackathon held at CUNY Journalism school over April 22 and 23 in New York City. The game presents headlines drawn from various publications, using RSS feeds, and asks the players to identify which publication it comes from. The original publications