Jesper Andersen (@jandersen), founder of Bloom — Building Data Narratives
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I'm really excited to announce that we will be having Jesper Andersen, one of the founders of Bloom speaking at our next meetup on August 30th at Trulia. Jesper is an excellent data scientist and storyteller, and his talks at Strata have always been a highlight.
Jesper Andersen:
Building Data Narratives: Haight Street and San Francisco
Data isn’t just for supporting decisions and creating actionable interfaces. Data can create nuance, giving new understandings that lead to further questioning—rather than just decisions. In particular, curiosity, and creative thinking can be driven by combining different data sets and techniques to develop a narrative around a set of data sets that tells the story of a place—the emotions, history, and change embedded in the experience of the place.
We'll discuss how data about Haight Street can be manipulated and presented to create a coherent story around one of San Francisco's most dynamic streets. Then we'll talk about how one can, and cannot, extend the one-dimensional street model into two dimensions - both from an analytic and visualization perspective.
Schedule:
6:30 Doors Open.
6:30-7:00 Social time. There will be pizza and drinks.
7:00-8:00 Intros and Presentation. Q&A to follow.
8:00-9:00 Social time. Meet Jesper Andersen and network with each other.
Also, a note on the RSVPs. Since we're such a big group now, I'm trying out a different RSVP format to see if this works out better. We often have tons of people on the wait list who think they won't be able to get in, and lots of people who have RSVP'd yes that don't end up showing up. This time we're going to try out having this event First Come First Served, and not set an attendee limit. Ideally this way we'll be able to let everyone who can make it to Trulia in. We'll be tweeting from http://twitter.com/baydatavis if we fill up before 7pm and you can always ping @baydatavis or me @shashashasha with any concerns.
So, again, there will be No Attendee Limit! As long as you show up at 6:30 we will most likely have space for you.
Excited to see you all there,
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