Visualizing Our Branches of Government & Super Tuesday
Details
A consistent theme in this DVDC community is how to walk the path towards making visualizing data a part of your careers. DVDC is happy to introduce Nathaniel Pearlman and a discussion of his career from software to data visualization. Nathaniel is the founder/CEO one of the nation's most successful political software companies. After his software company, Nathaniel started Graphicacy (http://graphicacy.com/), a creative analytic design agency, and Timeplots (http://www.timeplots.com/), an online storefront for information graphic products.
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Nathaniel will discuss lessons learned from Timeplots (http://www.timeplots.com/) where he and a small team created award-winning, political themed information design posters. He'll share examples of his posters and go into how they were built, lessons learned in the process of building them, and what he might do differently now reflecting back on the work.
Case studies to be explored include:
• A Visual History of the US House of Representatives (http://www.timeplots.com/collections/catalog/products/a-visual-history-of-the-us-house-and-supreme-court-bundle)
• A Visual History of the US Senate (http://www.timeplots.com/collections/catalog/products/a-visual-history-of-the-united-states-senate)
• A Visual History of the American Presidency (http://www.timeplots.com/collections/catalog/products/a-history-of-the-us-presidency)
• A Visual History of the US Supreme Court (http://www.timeplots.com/collections/catalog/products/a-visual-history-of-the-supreme-court-of-the-united-states)
Last year Graphicacy held its 2015 Major League Data Challenge (http://www.majorleaguedatachallenge.com/), a visual design contest, and DVDC is happy to announce with Graphicacy this year's 2016 Super Tuesday Data Challenge. Details to be provided at the event. If you would like to participate, please reach out to the DVDC organizers.
About Nathaniel Pearlman
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Nathaniel Pearlman has been visualizing data for more than two decades; his interest goes back as far as his first statistics class with Edward Tufte in 1988. Nathaniel majored in computer science at Yale and he finished all but his dissertation in MIT’s political science doctoral program. Outside of academics, Nathaniel is an experienced entrepreneur. He founded NGP Software, Inc. in 1997 (now NGP VAN, Inc.) to join his interests in politics and technology and grew that company into the market leader in fundraising and compliance software for progressive political campaigns. Nathaniel served as Chief Technology Officer for the Hillary Clinton for President campaign in 2007-8. In 2009, Nathaniel founded the information graphic products company Timeplots and reserved the name Graphicacy for information graphics consulting and services. Together, Timeplots and Graphicacy are dedicated to making the visual display of information more comprehensible and aesthetic.
AGENDA
• 6:30 - Doors open, networking
• 7ish - Introductions & Announcements
• 7:15 - Visualizing Our Branches of Government
• 8:00 - Q&A
• 8:20 - Data Challenge Details
• 8:40 - Data Drinks
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Check out the Data Community DC Newsletter (http://us3.campaign-archive2.com/?u=75fc125999b198f97fe860a8d&id=6e8db1780b&e=263865b99d)!
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This Week's Events
• DC Natural Language Processing (https://www.meetup.com/DC-NLP/events/228357131/) invites you to their monthly meetup with guest speaker Dr. Boyan Onyshkevich from DARPA's Information Innovation Office. On Tuesday, join
• Action Design DC (https://www.meetup.com/Action-Design-DC/events/225293842/) for a presentation by Opower, a customer engagement platform with an energy conservation goal.
On Wednesday, DC2 is holding three events:
• Data Education DC (https://www.meetup.com/Data-Education-DC/events/228116564/) hosts an introduction to survival analysis, including practical applications and an opportunity to build interactive survival models using R.
• Data Wranglers DC (https://www.meetup.com/Data-Wranglers-DC/events/222987192/) offers a demonstration of advanced, context-based search tools with the capacity to search multiple websites and databases such as data.gov.
• DC2 Digital Nomads (https://www.meetup.com/dcnightowls/events/228406886/) hosts their monthly Nightowl Productivity event. Come share your ideas and projects with fellow peers.
• On Saturday, Data Community DC and District Data Labs (https://www.meetup.com/Data-Community-DC/events/227340011/) co-host a workshop covering fast data applications with Spark and Python.
Would you like to announce data-related public events in the region? Submit it to the calendar (http://www.datacommunitydc.org/calendar/) and we'll do the rest.
Would you like to share something viral with us? You can reach other regional data afficionados with #datadc on Twitter (https://twitter.com/search?q=%23datadc), or in our Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/groups/datacommunitydc/) or LinkedIn (http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Data-Community-DC-4763419) groups!
Jobs / Internships
• Capital One is looking for brilliant Data Engineers (https://jobs.capitalone.com/job/mclean/data-engineering-senior-engineer-mclean/1732/1089517) to help us be a great open source tech company in banking. We're working with cool things like Spark, Kafka, Storm, Flink and have needs at all levels. If you're interested in finding out more we'd love to hear from you! (VA)
• Poise is seeking a Senior Data Scientist (http://www.indeed.com/jobs?q=%22poise+inc%22&l=). Candidates will have the opportunity to utilize the following technology: Hadoop, Impala, Hive, Pig or Spark, HQL/SQL, Java (Python, Perl, etc.), numerical and statistical packages (Pandas, Numpy, Sklearn, R). Contact Mr.Steve Roper for more details.
• (DC)The DC Office of the State Superintendent of Education (OSSE) is looking for an Assistant Superintendent (http://osse.dc.gov/ossecareeropportunities) of Data, Assessment & Research who will play a pivotal role in helping the agency ensure that the 90,000 students in DC receive a great education. (DC)The Psychometrics and Quantitative Research team at the Center for Applied Linguistics is seeking a Data Analyst (http://www.cal.org/who-we-are/career-opportunities/jobs/quantitative-research-assistant) to support research and project-related activities for a large-scale assessment of English language proficiency. (DC)
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Visualizing Our Branches of Government & Super Tuesday