Data Potluck #7 - Data Infographics and Data Cleansing

Please join us for Data Potluck #7, 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:

1. Food! Either:

Bring a dish or food item to share, or Bring a few dollars to contribute if you're strapped for time. Nick, Young-Jin, Matt will make sure there are extra veggie-friendly plates and drinks.

2. Rountable

Who's here, why, and how do you want to get involved?
3. Talking tools, data sources and data:

Data Driven Infographics Fellow Lucky, Elizabeth Fosslien will be giving a talk on both presentation and being flexible and creative with data analysis. Get a preview of her cool work here: http://fosslien.com/ Data Cleansing via OpenRefine: Young-Jin Kim will cover an introductory session of Google Refine in a Randori style coding sessions. Not sure what Randori style Mob coding is? Relax, we'll give you a gentle introduction. We'll pick a messy dataset from the data portal and look at a few ways that cleanse it with OpenRefine, download your free copy of this power tool here: http://openrefine.org/ Open Floor: We'll be saving most of the evening for making connections, talking about developing data, and crafting projects in two Randori style groups. 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.

ROOM CHANGE to Credit Suisse Room (not our usual IMSA room)

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Elisabeth Fosslien has worked in the Optimization Team at Arc Worldwide/Leo Burnett and as an analyst in the financial and economic consulting industries. She graduated with a degree in Mathematical Economics from Pomona College in 2009. Elisabeth will spend the next months interning at a startup foundry before attending Stanford GSB in the fall. In her spare time, she embarks upon various forms of data visualization.

Young-Jin Kim is the co-founder of DataPotluck. He's a recovering physicist who founded Emphanos, a technology consulting company that specializes in delivering open source goodness to the non-profit and government sector. He is actively and passionately involved in the Drupal and CiviCRM community.