Data Potluck #4 - The Tribune Crime App, Amazing Student Data, and Root Veggies
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Please join us for Data Potluck #4, where we have a table decked full of great talks, great company of analysts, developers, and non-profit data partners, as well as another belly full of home cooking.
Rough and flexible agenda:
- Food! Either:
Bring a dish or food item to share, or Bring a few dollars to contribute if you're strapped for time. Nick and Matt will make sure there are extra veggie-friendly plates and drinks.
- Rountable
Who's here, why, and how do you want to get involved?
3. Talking tools, data sources and data:
App Development: Communicating Neighborhood Crime We're very excited to have David Eads and Joe Germuska (see bios below) from the Chicago Tribune who will talk about the genesis of their new crime site Crime in Chicago (http://crime.chicagotribune.com/chicago/), the methods of analysis, how they build their web site, and where they want to take it in the future; Non-Profit Project Data Work: Jason Almergi (bio below) is joining us from Flint, Michigan to talk about the amazing community and student survey data set that he has constructed over the last several years. He is looking for analysts to partner with, and invites us to: "Learn about an 8-year longitudinal study in one of the nations most violent communities - Flint, Michigan. This study connects school datasets with a 205 item survey on the health, safety, nutrition and out-of-school time activities of 8,000 4th to 8th grade students across 100 schools." Open Floor: We'll be saving most of the evening for making connections, talking about developing data, and crafting projects. Looking forward to seeing you there!
Note: Please RSVP 24 hours ahead of the meetup so that we prepare food and set up the room accordingly.
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Joe Germuska is a Senior News Application developer for the Chicago Tribune. He leads development of special online projects that amplify the impact of Tribune investigations, as well as stand-alone projects such as the award-winning Tribune Schools site and the new Crime in Chicago project. He was also a board member for the Knight News Challenge-funded PANDA project. In 2009, he founded OpenGovChicago toprovide a forum where Chicagoans interested in civic technology could meet and share information. Before joining the Chicago Tribune, he was a web developer at JGSullivan Interactive and Northwestern University. He also hosts a weekly music radio program, "Conference of the Birds."
David Eads is a News Application developer for the Chicago Tribune. David specializes in internal tools designed to improve process, like the Tribune's Layercake liveblog editor and photo galleries. He has also worked on data projects like Crime in Chicago and reporting projects like Playing with Fire, an investigation of flame retardants. In 2005, he helped found FreeGeek Chicago, a community-run nonprofit which provides practical computing skills training and ethical electronics recycling.
Jason B. Almerigi, Ph.D. is the executive director of Youth Outcomes, a non-profit organization that provides evaluation capacity building for youth-serving and educational organizations. He also serves as an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at Michigan State University. He received his Ph.D. in developmental psychology from Michigan State University, completed post-doctoral training in applied developmental science from Tufts University, and has additional training in program evaluation from the Evaluator’s Institute and the American Evaluation Association. He specializes in longitudinal assessment of psychological, social, and physical development in infants, children, youth, and young adults. He is currently involved in several community-based evaluation and research projects that assess the short- and long-term effects of school-based programming on K-12 students’ health, safety, and nutrition.