Hacks/Hackers Berlin

Hacks/Hackers #8

May 22, 2013 · 7:00 PM
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Hacks/Hackers is back! For this very special edition we return with a stellar line-up of speakers and entertainment focusing on 'rebooting journalism'.

journalism + technology = #hhber

Stop by to see engaging presentations and workshops on...

Citizen Desk (community breaking news platform from Mozambique, ANIC winner!) with Adam Thomas
Faktomat (Die Zeit's new fact-checking platform) from Martin Kotynek and Joerg Burger
Adhocracy from NGO Liquid Democracy e.V
Mozilla OpenNews Fellowship from Annabel Church
School of Data by OKFN's Lucy Chambers

In addition to all that wholesome news innovation goodness, we'll also be serving beer and brezel. This is optional, just pay your €3 on the door (but try to let us know in advance).

Hope to see you there!

Best wishes, Adam

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Maelle F.

Great meeting, very interesting tools and presentations. Thank you all

1 · May 23, 2013
- Adam T.
  
  Thanks Maelle!
  
  0 · May 24, 2013
Max R.

Interessant – war das erste Mal dabei.

0 · May 23, 2013
- Adam T.
  
  Bis zum nächsten Mal!
  
  0 · May 24, 2013
Max R.

just blogged about my (first) impressions on h/h #8 http://wp.me/p16TgE-dn (german version)

1 · May 23, 2013
Lucy Fedia C.

Howdy all, as promised - the links to the tools we demoed last night: * http://finereader.abbyy.com/ (unfortunately - not free, but definitely worth it if you have to do this a lot!)
* http://www.cometdocs.com/ (cloud based)
* http://tabula.nerdpower.org/ (you'll need to set this up on a server yourself, but once it's running - really easy to use!)
* http://pdf2htmlex.blogspot.de/ (command-line based) Post extraction (nerd alert - these need you to use the command line!) * https://csvkit.readthedocs.org/en/latest/scripts/csvstack.html - for stitching together CSV files. Hope it was useful! School of Data also has a full course on extracting data from PDFs explaining some of the things which affect your decision to do one thing or the other and we're working to improve it, so would welcome feedback! http://schoolofdata.org/handbook/courses/extracting-data-from-pdf/ (You can reach us on [masked]) Thanks for hosting #hhber !

2 · May 23, 2013
- Saul L.
  
  Great stuff! Thanks a lot!
  
  0 · May 23, 2013
Martin K.

Do you want to be a speaker next time at #hhber? Just tell Adam, Lucy, Annabel or me.

1 · May 23, 2013
Adam T.

My favourite Hacks/Hackers yet. Great people, great projects. Thanks everyone!

0 · May 23, 2013
Checkout D.

Nice to talk the "brains" behind these projects. Thanks especially to Annabel, Martin, Lucy, Tillman and Sanjay for your time and attention.

1 · May 23, 2013
Catonano

beautiful. This idea of sharing skills is simple and powerful

1 · May 22, 2013
A former member

Nice presentations, nice people to talk too and nice drinks ;-)

1 · May 22, 2013
Markus H.

unfortunately i won't be able to join you guys tonight, a real pity

0 · May 22, 2013
Saul L.

A pity not being able to attend, but will follow any hashtag provided.

0 · May 21, 2013
- Adam T.
  
  We'll miss you! Hashtag will be #hhber
  
  0 · May 22, 2013
Frederik F.

Sounds great!

0 · May 12, 2013
Benni

looking forward to the event

0 · May 10, 2013