Valentines Special! Love Stinks!

Get into THE holiday spirit with some champagne, some chocolate, some soft music, some lighting.... ohh and some stinky love visualizations at the most flirtatious GeoNYC yet! Always delivering on the mapping risque (did you know there was such a thing?) there will be the missed connections of love lost and found alongside sweet rhythms of a sewer. All under the rainbow of love.

Where to find love!? At GeoNYC of course! Join us and follow the conversation at #geonyc for the latest updates.

We're also looking for other speakers to join this lovesick and smelly pack. Please contact Alyssa if you can get the stars out of your eyes.

OUR SPEAKERS

Jonathan Soma [@dangerscarf (https://twitter.com/dangerscarf)] is director of Columbia University's Lede Program, where he cranks out legions of Python-fueled storytellers. He loves maps, languages, the Loch Ness Monster, and eating terrifying things in the name of science. Someday he'll get around to updating visualizing.nyc (http://visualizing.nyc/), but until then he'll be talking about The New, Interactive Singles Map (http://jonathansoma.com/singles/), and what happens when you hint that mathematics might open up doors in your love life.

Lam Thuy Vo [@lamthuyvo (https://twitter.com/lamthuyvo)] is Al Jazeera America's interactive editor where she leads a team of coder-reporters. A multi-hyphenate by choice, she works as a designer-coder-videographer-photographer and tells stories about social justice issues, economics and poverty. In her spare time, you can find her making data visualizations about emotional experiences or playing with audiovisuals. She will be talking about Quantified Breakup (http://quantifiedbreakup.tumblr.com/), a series of data visualizations about heartbreak as seen through the numbers and stats that our gadgets, apps and online accounts collect about us.

Leonard Bogdonoff [@rememberlenny (https://twitter.com/rememberlenny)] is a web developer at Conde Nast, working on The New Yorker. He blogs at blog.rememberlenny.com (http://blog.rememberlenny.com/) and recently released Public Art (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/public-art/id936484924), an iOS application for finding nearby street art.

Josh Eichen got his start in sewer expertise while exploring the Red Hook sewershed for his graduate thesis in Pratt's city planning masters program. He now disseminates his sewer wisdom through his work at the Pratt Center for Community Development and by teaching urban water management at Pratt Institute. When he's not talking about sewers, Josh is busy securing local manufacturing jobs or walking his dog.

Korin Tangtrakul, graduate student extraordinaire, began exploring NYC’s complex sewer system in support of colleague and Open Sewer Atlas NYC partner Josh Eichen’s graduate thesis. An avid GIS technician, Korin is always searching for new and interesting ways to display what happens after you flush the toilet. In between her various jobs and side projects Korin can be found petting turtles at your local pond.

Korin and Josh will speak about their one true love -- Open Sewer Atlas NYC (http://openseweratlas.tumblr.com/) -- a GIS exploration and community planning tool to unlock the mysteries of the NYC sewer system.

Ingrid Burrington [@lifewinning (https://twitter.com/lifewinning)] makes maps, writes, and tells jokes. She lives on a small island off the coast of America. Ingrid will talk about the Center for Missed Connections, an art project mapping loneliness in cities that she worked on between 2009 and 2011.

OUR SCHEDULE

6:30PM: The Mingle: doors, beer, pizza, people, etc
7:00PM: The Wonder: presentations followed by Q&A
8:30PM+: The celebrations.