The last Hacks/Hackers London meet up of 2013 promises to be another great event.
Here are a few details of what is happening.
There will be drinks. Our friends at NewsWhip have generously agreed to sponsor the booze, and Paul Quigley, founder and CEO, is coming over from Dublin to help us drink it.
Presentations
Roger Beecham from the giCentre and transport hub, City University, London will talk about the Barclays Bikes data.
Roger will demonstrate the stories they have found by visualising the data from the London bike share scheme.
Knight Mozilla fellow Annabel Church will be running "Data Stringer" Workshop.
Stringer journalists are freelance reporters that create news stories from remote countries or crisis zones. Data stringers, in a similar way, are small computer programmes that live in a remote data feed and ask routine journalistic questions of that data. Keeping track of what is happening in government or business, they can trigger notifications whenever events of journalistic significance occur.
In this session, we'll brainstorm some data stringers, designing small agents that make sense of open data and flag up the bits that a merit journalistic attention - or that of anyone else who is interested in what is happening.
Lightning round
Three-minute thunderbolts of insight from:
- Arturo Calvo Devesa @Arturo_C_Devesa and Miguel de Vega Rodrigo, Dialective
Dialective is an online platform enabling people to easily create visual, interactive stories, currently in a beta phase.
- Elliot Bentley, @elliot_bentley, oTranscribe
oTranscribe is an open source web app designed to make transcription easier.
- Paul Quigley, @paulyq, NewsWhip
NewsWhip is a tool for newsrooms that surfaces articles gaining traction on social media.
- The Hacks Hackers Buddy Scheme: An Update
November 27, 2013
Can't wait to meet you all on Wednesday.
I'd like to speak with somebody involved in the open-source community for a profile/interview. Feel free to contact me or tweet me @basilesimon
Cheers!
November 26, 2013
Greetings, looking forward to Wednesday's event. We're looking for a Co-Founder UX / UI designer for our start-up @VexPop, which is a disruptive public opinion platform. We have excellent contacts in news, media, TV and tech; we also have experienced technical and business team members that have worked at top companies. We've finished our clickable Wireframes, have 3 different business models, and have interest in our platform from contacts in the media industry for premium services. So we are looking for the right UX / UI person who can best visualize VexPop and complement our team. Please contact me [masked], or call me on[masked]
November 24, 2013
I am really interested in this event, though the format is quite new for me.
November 21, 2013
I am really interested in this event, though the format is quite new for me.
November 21, 2013
Ahoy! We're booting the Zurich chapter the very same night: http://www.meetup.com/Hacks-Hackers-Zurich/events/150526962/
I was considering a Hangout liaison at some point of the evening to say hi, WDYT?
November 20, 2013
Sure. I was with you guys for the last post-MozFest edition, can't wait to share with my fellow swiss ;)
November 21, 2013
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What time do the talks start? 7pm?