Houston’s “data rescue” project will be held at the Fondren Library on March 4. About 50 people have so far signed up to participate, Spiro says.
“The library’s on fire,” says Neeraj Tandon, a self-described “data nerd” who will lead a web-scraping training session for volunteers March 4. “This is public knowledge that, instead of sitting in a building, sits on servers a little bit out of our reach.”