Scraperwiki, the award-winning new screen scraper and data mining tool, funded by our friends over at 4iP, is putting on a one day practical hack day in Birmingham at which developers and designers will pair up with journalists and bloggers to produce a number of projects and stories based on public data. We would like to thank our sponsors Birmingham Science Park Aston and Digital Birmingham for making the event possible.

Who’s it for? We hope to attract hacks and hackers from all different types of backgrounds: people from big media organisations, as well as individual online publishers and freelancers. 

What will I get out of it? The aim is to show journalists how to use programming and design techniques to create online news stories and features; and vice versa, to show programmers how to find, develop, and polish stories and features.

The event is free to attend, and I’m told games developers and journalists are more than welcome, so for more details and to sign up visit their eventbrite page hacks-hackers-birmingham.eventbrite.com