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Mr No Vote wins 17/18 …

Alan Meban (Alan in Belfast) on November 17, 2010, 7:17 pm

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Map of NI showing how turnout affected 2010 Westminster election results - adapted from Ark Election site ark.co.uk/election

A bunch of hacks (programmers) and hackers (journalists – real and citizen!) attended ScraperWiki‘s workshop in the University of Ulster Belfast campus on Saturday. The idea was to unearth benefit and stories from the public data, if necessary using robotic data scraping techniques to lift facts and figures out of ill-formatted webpages into a more useful database format to explore the connections. Three teams formed, looking at NI Court decisions, comparing pay levels across public, private and voluntary vacancies advertised …

Hacks and Hackers Hack Day Belfast (and Dublin)

Alan Meban (Alan in Belfast) on September 27, 2010, 5:00 pm

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Just noticed an event on Saturday 13 November that is likely to be of interest to some Slugger readers and contributors. (I’ve no connection with Scraperwiki or 4iP!) Free ticket booking – for hacks and hackers – over at Eventbrite. To quote from their blurb … What? Scraperwiki, the award-winning new screen scraper and data mining tool, funded by 4iP, is putting on a one day practical hack day* in Belfast at which web developers and designers will pair up …