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Let's welcome fall with another Hacks/Hackers MTL meetup. This time it will be a demo night. Good folks from the community will spend up to 10 minutes demonstrating a technique or tool that makes life easier.
Here's our lineup:
Using the Niveau 3 widget to create HTML popups in tablet apps: a case from La Presse+
- Cedric Sam, data journalist, La Presse
Using newsie-timeline to tell a story over time
- Farid Rener, creator of newsie-timeline
How to scrape an encrypted PDF in three moderately difficult steps
- Roberto Rocha, The Gazette
A look at Overview, a document visualization and categorization tool
- Adam Hooper, co-creator of Overview
Using CSS sprites to make nicer buttons for your interactive
- Julia Wolfe, web designer
As always, beer and snacks will be provided, courtesy of The Gazette.
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Accueillons l'automne avec une autre édition de Hacks/Hacker MTL. Cette fois-ci on vous offre une soirée de démonstrations. Nos conférenciers vont démontrer des techniques et outils qui peuvent être utiles dans votre quotidien.
Ils sont:
Le widget Niveau 3 pour créer des fenêtres HTML dans les apps pour tablettes
- Cedric Sam, journaliste de données, La Presse
Newsie-timeline un outil pour raconter des histoires chronologiques
- Farid Rener, créateur de newsie-timeline
Comment libérer les données dans un PDF protégé en trois pas plutôt difficiles
- Roberto Rocha, The Gazette
Overview, un outil de visualization et catégorisation de documents
- Adam Hooper, co-créateur d'Overview
Utiliser les sprites CSS pour créer des boutons plus intéressants dans votre intéractif
- Julia Wolfe, designer web
Comme d'habitude, la bière et des chips (offerts par The Gazette) seront servis.
October 18, 2013
The R meet up I just advertised:
http://www.meetup.com/Montreal-R-User-Group/events/144636812/
We are very pleased to welcome back Dr. Ramnath Vaidyanathan for a talk on interactive documents as it relates to his excellent rCharts package.
October 17, 2013
As promised- here's the link to my commented markup on making css buttons. Please feel free to shoot me an email or tweet if you've got any questions!
October 17, 2013
Said, please come anyway. There are always people who don't show up last minute.
October 16, 2013
Pour la location de la salle Pierre-Bourgault a prix d'ami :-)
Purveyor of pizza and drinks
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And for those interested, here's Overview: https://www.overviewproject.org
The blog (linked from there) includes lots of wonderful examples of stories and how to find them.