Workshop: Scraping Political Data (Web Hacking Techniques)
Hours:
11AM-5PM
Cost:
$210
Tuesday July 10, 11AM-5PM & Tuesday July 17, 11AM-5PM
Workshop Description
: The workshop will introduce the basic philosophy and practical application of transparency activism through the use of smart hacks over web platforms. Ownership, privacy and the geopolitical use of data will be examined through case histories of ethical and legal issues with a special focus on financial and corporate data in relation to the recent financial meltdown and subsequent protests.
Software that will be explored during the workshop: IMacro, Fake, Scraperwiki, Beautiful Soup, Scrapy, etc.
Code that will be explored: PHP, Phynton, Sql, JavaScript, DHTML, etc.
Workshop Instructor
: Paolo Cirio is well known for web-hacktivism through projects such as Face to Facebook, Google Will Eat Itself and Amazon Noir. He was part of the legendary Italian net-art collective Epidemic which has created visionary viruses and P2P software. At the age of twenty-two he was investigated by the Department of National Defense of Canada and the USA for his innovative DDOS attacks on NATO’s website though a Flash script.
Prerequisites:
- If possible, bring your own Mac laptop.
- Knowledge of coding is not necessary, but very welcome.
- Minimum age: 18 or high school graduate.
Cost/Registration
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