RSVP now for Demo Day 7 ($10, payable in advance)*
What is Demo Day? Presenters get 5 minutes to present a news-oriented project, and 5 minutes to answer questions from the audience. It's a fast-paced, fun evening, and we hope you'll be a part of it.
The lightning talks for Demo Day will include:
• Atlas Obscura's Guide to Literary Road Trips, with Richard Kreitner @richardkreitner
• A look behind Stimme.de's Operation Sawfish, a 70th anniversary commemoration of a massive WWII air raid over Heilbronn, Germany, with Vanessa Wormer @remrow
• The decision tree that decides on the best maps to make given a dataset for CartoDB's One-Click Mapping, with Andy Eschbacher @MrEPhysics
• Dailygraphics, NPR Visuals' rig for deploying daily graphics projects in responsive iframe, with Alyson Hurt from NPR Visuals @alykat
• Mapshaper, an open source alternative to GIS software for editing map data, with Matthew Bloch from The New York Times@grammata
• censusAmericans, personalizing the U.S. Census on Twitter, with Jia Zhang, intern at FiveThirtyEight @jiazhang
*Refund policy: Cancel at least 24 hours before the event (that is, no later than 6:30 p.m. Aug. 12) to receive a full refund. We cannot issue refunds after that.
Schedule:
6:30 p.m.: Doors, dinner + socializing
~7:00 p.m.: Demos/lightning talks begin
~8:15 p.m.: Hiring announcements, networking and socializing
A big thanks to Pivotal Labs for hosting us. Want to host a Hacks/Hackers NYC event? Email us at nyc[at]hackshackers[dot]com.
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