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Mitchel Whitelaw - who is at Canberra University just across town from when I am now at ANU - is an amazing researcher merging science, art and data. Below is a workshop he is organizing on visualizing public data. I will not be here for his workshop, but I will be meeting Mitchell later this week to talk about the workshop and a technology that he and I both use for visualization called Processing (see http://zzzoot.blogspot.com/2009/07/project-torngat-building-large-scale.html). Is anyone interested in helping me organize a similar workshop here in Canada? Also related and uber-cool is his 3-D weather bracelet, structured from the public data on Canberra daily min/max temperature and daily rainfall: http://teemingvoid.blogspot.com/2009/10/weather-bracelet-3d-printed-data.html Glen Newton Carleton University http://zzzoot.blogspot.com ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Mitchell Whitelaw <[hidden email]> Date: 20 July 2010 12:37 Subject: Big Pictures: Visualising Public Data To: Mitchell Whitelaw <[hidden email]> Dear Friends, I'd like to invite you to a workshop I'm organising on visualising public data. Feel free to forward this selectively to others who would be interested. Thanks, Mitchell -----  In the wake of Data.gov and the Australian Gov2.0 taskforce, access to public data is an emerging issue. But access is only half the story. How can interactive visualisation support exploration, understanding and insight in public datasets? This workshop will bring together researchers, developers, public sector agencies and cultural institutions to share the best in current practice and discuss the way forward for this dynamic field.
Big Pictures: Visualising Public Data Wednesday 11 August, 10am - 1pm @ University of Canberra
hosted by the Digital Design + Media Arts Research Cluster, Faculty of Arts and Design Speakers will include Ben Hosken (Flink Labs) and Paul Hagon (National Library of Australia).
Registration essential: RSVP at http://bit.ly/BigPicturesRSVP -- - |
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I'm looking at organizing a similar small, possibly private, event here in Monteal. My company and a few others are building services on top of government data - from Canada or the US. The get-together we were talking about would involve sharing tools and tricks to 1) scrape, 2) clean, and 3) visualize or identify patterns in the data.
Related note - since Metaweb / Freebase just got acquired by Google I'm wondering what is going to happen to GridWorks - a tool for cleaning data sets. It's open source, so it might survive. But I'm interested in this type of event. Sincerely,
Michael On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 11:04 PM, Glen Newton <[hidden email]> wrote:
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Shawn Michael Lenczner wrote: I'm looking at organizing a similar small, possibly private, event here in Monteal. My company and a few others are building services on top of government data - from Canada or the US. The get-together we were talking about would involve sharing tools and tricks to 1) scrape, 2) clean, and 3) visualize or identify patterns in the data. |
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Hi Michael,
That's great to hear! :-) Are you set on your workshop being private? It would be good to work together, but I understand if your company has specific goals that do not make that possible, at least for the workshop you are planning. I am back from Australia Aug 9: I can come down to Montreal to meet if you think that would make sense. And we can communicate between now and then. Perhaps a series of workshops would be a good way to go, each with a different focus? Let me know what you (and others) think. Yes, I am hoping GridWorks stays open source AND actively developed and supported. But I think it is at risk as Google is looking more at the semantic side of search, and tends to not support things that might allow others to threaten its crown jewels: search. Thanks, Glen On 20 July 2010 13:28, Michael Lenczner <[hidden email]> wrote: I'm looking at organizing a similar small, possibly private, event here in Monteal. My company and a few others are building services on top of government data - from Canada or the US. The get-together we were talking about would involve sharing tools and tricks to 1) scrape, 2) clean, and 3) visualize or identify patterns in the data. -- - |
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