I liked the Mapa76 Hackathon because of what came out of this case. There they were, a bunch of software developers and journalists trying to figure out the best way to gather information on 1976 coup of Argentina in which there were an estimated 30,000 disappeared people, thousands of deaths, and 500 children born in captivity appropriated for the military dictatorship. The task for these journalists and software developers was to gather info from all over the web and huge spreadsheet files to scrape data and visually represent it. Reason this was my favorite one was because I once had a task to scrape headlines and information out of news websites. At the time I knew nothing about programming and found a simple, yet complicated to me solution using Python. And all this did was scrape articles and headlines out one single website I can imagine doing it for the web or a spreadsheet containing thousands of rows and columns. Another story that intrigued me was the Data in the News: Wikileaks story because I recently saw the Edward Snowden documentary about his wikileaks.
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