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Hacks/Hackers ATX – 7 Awesome Examples of Writing About Data

For the July meeting of Hacks/Hackers Austin, Kristen Carney of Cubit Planning discussed 7 Awesome Examples of Writing About Data That Will Drive Eyeballs To Your Site. Covering a variety of tools, Carney demonstrated the value of seven examples: landing pages, data disproving an accepted truth, analysis of social

Hacks/Hackers Buenos Aires tackles data retention and a hackathon

Este post también está en español Hacks/Hackers Buenos Aires held a super “Demo Day” in Buenos Aires, followed by sending a team to a hackathon in Rosario, located 300 km from the capital of Argentina. The meeting also drew investors and entrepreneurs in the tech world. Malte Spitz of

Retención de datos en Demo Day / Visualización en HTML5 en Hackatón

This post is also in english De pronto, sucedieron dos eventos con apenas una semana de diferencia: un super “Demo Day” en Buenos Aires, y un mini-hackatón en Rosario, a 300 kilómetros de la capital argentina. El alemán Malte Spitz fue la figura central del segundo Hacks/Hackers Buenos Aires,

Design Thinking taught by Hong Qu at Hacks/Hackers NYC

The Design Thinking hands-on workshop with Hong Qu, one of the first designers at YouTube, took place at the CUNY Journalism school. It led the attendees through the premise behind user persona testing. Then Hong had us get together with teams and create user persona scenarios and wireframes for 5

Integrating Tech Skills in Your Communications Career at Hacks/Hackers Austin

Austin’s Hacks and Hackers came out for this panel on Integrating Tech Skills in Your Communications Career, a topic that is of great interest to students, recent grads, job-seekers and seasoned professionals, as they wish to update their skills to reflect the coding and social media requirements of modern

Going beyond comments at Hacks/Hackers NYC

Last week was a bit of a blur: after meeting with the Chicago Tribune News Applications team, and descending into the Tribune dungeon for an evening of brainstorming with the local Hacks/Hackers group, I was off to New York for the Hacks/Hackers NYC “Beyond Comments: Discuss, brainstorm with

Knight Mozilla London Mojo brainstorming session at the Guardian

Mozilla, Knight Foundation, Hacks/Hackers London and The Guardian hosted a brainstorming session in London on May 28, as part of the Mozilla Journalism (#MoJo) initiative. (For more information, follow @KnightMozilla on Twitter). I have been to a lot of journalism-technology brainstorming sessions in the last few years, but I