This months event will focus on data visualisation tools and techniques, and featuring the Processing programming language, as well as business intelligence tools and lessons learned.
This event has been curated by Justin Souter. The lineup is:
- Justin to give a quick introduction – 5 minutes
- Slot 1 – 40 mins
- Joeli from Codeworks to recount how the CultureCode events went, what the thinking was behind it, and what future plans may be – 5 mins probably
- Brigitta to address ‘Experimental Approaches to Data Visualisation’, and thus broaden the scope by talking through her data visualisation work – 12 mins
- Adrian Park to outline his work with Processing and recent CultureCode attendance etc. – 12 mins
- Q&A session involving these three presenters – 5-10 mins
- Comfort break – 5 mins
- Slot 2 – 25 mins
- Local industry player to talk about business intelligence tools – 20 mins (tops) + 5 mins Q&A
- Potential slot for sponsor to speak, at this point
- I still need to finalise this, so any volunteers – please get in touch –@souterconsults :-)
- Slot 3
- Stuart Smith from Wood Holmes – 20-25 mins + 5 mins Q&A
- Stuart to talk about more technical side of data analysis
- This is what we used; not how we used it; challenges we faced in doing it
- Wash-up and Q&A – 10 minutes
Justin has written more details about the event here:
http://souterconsulting.eu/2012/05/08/supermondays-data-visualisation-evening-may-28th/
The event will take place at the Culture Lab in Newcastle University on Monday 28th May starting from 6.00pm. You can find a map to the venue here:
http://culturelab.ncl.ac.uk/about/contact
Running a SuperMondays event costs money. In the past we paid for this out of Public Sector sponsorship, this has subsequently dried up. We are trying an innovative scheme this month by giving attendees the opportunity to make a small donation when booking your ticket.
