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Get hands-on data visualization training at Newscamp

From intricate interactive maps to stunning visualizations, news organizations like The New York Times and Washington Post make data come alive for readers. Join Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE), in partnership with Hacks/Hackers, for NewsCamp on Feb. 24 in Raleigh, N.C., and you too can learn from the

Hacks/Hackers LA Data event, Thursday Dec. 16

The first ever proper Hacks/Hackers Los Angeles event is coming up this Thursday, December 16. Its on the topic of Data—finding it, making sense of it, visualizing it, telling stories with it. And we’ve got four awesome speakers lined up. Thursday, 12/16 7:30pm Crawford Family

New York, RSVP for the Dec. 20 Hacks/Hackers NYC Holiday Fête

Update: RSVP now for the Hacks/Hackers Holiday Fête on Dec. 20 at Galapagos Art Space in DUMBO! Doors will open at 7 p.m. Crave will be catering the evening. Thanks very much to our sponsors: Gawker Media, Scribd, Soundnote, CUNY Graduate School of Journalism and Nearsay. We’re

Hacks/Hackers style guide released today

Today we’re releasing the Hacks/Hackers style guide. As our organization continues to grow rapidly with groups across the world (five countries and counting), it’s become clear we need visual brand consistency. We wanted to make it easier for our members to access and create high-quality logos for

Hacks/Hackers launches store, including dogwear

That’s right, we now have a Hacks/Hackers store. If you’re looking for gifts this holiday season for that special journo-hacker in your life, check it out. Holiday season is almost here and i am already looking for good christmas gifts for men that i can buy for

Collaborate on your Knight News Challenge ideas

We’re trying to spur ideas/collaboration among Hacks/Hackers members for the Knight News Challenge, a grant program that supports news innovation that has a Dec. 1 deadline. So far more than $20 million has been granted to dozens of projects, including Spot.us, DocumentCloud, Ushahidi and MediaBugs. Who

MIT project looking for WordPress users to beta test data visualization tools

An MIT research project is looking for beta testers for its Knight News Challenge proposal for a WordPress data visualization plugin. Sign up on their blog. As Professor David Karger writes, his team has created a WordPress plugin called Datapress that lets folks WYSIWYG author interactive visualizations of any data