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Sleeping Bodies at the Great Urban Hack NYC

Hacks/Hackers NYC and Eyebeam Art + Technology Center held an epic hackathon called The Great Urban Hack which led to 25 hours of hacking. Below are some pictures of the hardcore folks who stayed at the space all night. The above shot is from after midnight, but before people started

Political Widget Takes Daylife’s Top Prize at ONA Hackathon

In conjunction with the Online News Association convention, Hacks/Hackers hosted a hackathon at NPR that was sponsored by Daylife, a New York-based technology company which offered a $500 cash prize for the the best use of its API. Surprisngly, hackathon participants hailed from as far as Portland, Miami, Los

Boston Hackathon Focuses on OpenBlock at MIT Media Lab

About 25 people gathered at the MIT Media Lab on October 30 for a Hack/Hackers Boston co-organized event to build geolocal apps using OpenBlock, an open source hyperlocal news and data gathering system based on Django. OpenBlock is based on EveryBlock. Boston Innovation had great coverage and a video,

St. Louis Hacks/Hackers meetup Thursday

St. Louis is joining the Hacks/Hackers community. The first STL Hacks/Hackers meetup will be 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Nov. 4 at The Dubliner in downtown St. Louis. RSVP at on.fb.me/STLhh. St. Louis has a large and very active programming community, and several

Jacqui Maher of The New York Times Talks About News Interactives in Austin

On October 26, Hacks/Hackers ATX welcomed Jacqui Maher of The New York Times Interactive News Technology group to discuss data-driven news interactives. The event was held at the offices of the Texas Tribune, with food sponsored by delicious Home Slice Pizza. Jacqui demonstrated projects, including the award-winning Toxic Waters,

Hacks/Hackers Austin Hosts News Hackathon

A group of coders and journos got together for a Saturday of programming at Austin Community College’s Eastview Campus for the first Hacks/Hackers ATX News Hackathon. The day was quite productive with a variety of news apps discussed and developed over the course of the day. It was

Reporting Recipe: Using Amazon’s Mechanical Turk for Data Projects

This is a guest post that also appeared on Oct. 15 on ProPublica’s blog at http://www.propublica.org/article/how-we-use-mechanical-turk-to-do-data-driven-reporting-and-how-you-can-too by Amanda Michel ProPublica Of all of journalism’s recent evolutions, data-driven reporting is one of the most celebrated. But as much as we should toast data’s