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Cómo se hizo el hackatón sobre D3.js en Buenos Aires

Temas de lo más variados aparecieron en escena: la represión sobre el sector financiero durante la última dictadura militar, visualizaciones sobre destinos turísticos, análisis visual de las votaciones nominales, líneas de tiempo comparativas sobre funcionarios y un instructivo sobre resultados deportivos, fueron algunas de las implementaciones que se desarrollaron en

Hacks/Hackers Miami: MySQL bootcamp

Hacks/Hackers Miami officially launched Saturday, April 13, when Stephanie Rosenblatt, a full-stack developer with a long-standing love of journalism, led about 25 members through a 3-hour MySQL bootcamp at the University of Miami School of Communication. The group gained hands-on experience creating tables, importing and formatting data, and performing

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

Follow the Money: How to fund serious journalism online

The latest Hacks/Hackers event brought together the creator of Pocket and Matter, and a former Wired.com head editor to talk about ways to make money from serious journalism http://storify.com/burtherman/hacks-hackers-sf-follow-the-money

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

Hacks/Hackers Austin: Innovation in Media

Tim Lott, vice president of disruptive innovation of Cox Media Group, met with Hacks/Hackers Austin in a joint meetup with Online News Association on Jan. 28 at the Statesman to discuss the activities of his team. They are working on TwelveApp, but are also pioneering in new ways to

Hacks/Hackers Rabat: To E or not to Be

For the first time in Morocco, Hacks/Hackers was organized in November 2012, in Rabat, the capital, but the story did not start from that date. It started in February 2012, when some friends and I founded the first think tank in Morocco working on using media for development. One