Lightning Awards
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$75 First Prize
$25 Runner Up
Want to Compete?
We're having a bit of fun this November and awarding $75 to the most popular lightning talk, and $25 to the runner up. If you'd like to join Kate Rabinowitz (https://www.linkedin.com/in/kate-rabinowitz-168b303b), David Clare (https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-clare-phd-pmp-7b842186), and David Aja (https://www.linkedin.com/in/edavidaja) on stage and live on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaGyAbphxrkYIMOgTTFlcyQ) for a chance to win, send us a message here or on Twitter at @DataVizDC and we'll be in touch.
You can vote at the event, by tweeting @DataVizDC, or commenting on the YouTube livestream (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaGyAbphxrkYIMOgTTFlcyQ) (link TBA). Here are the presentation details:
DC Women in Data Viz: Their Work, Absence from the Meetup Scene, and Solutions
Kate will be presenting her analysis of the startling gender speaker gap at local tech and data meetup events. She will also discuss ways forward and highlight some fantastic data visualization work from area women, including her own site DataLensDC.
Creator of DataLensDC (http://www.datalensdc.com/), Data Lead for Code for DC (http://codefordc.org/), co-organizer of Tech Lady Hackathon (http://techladyhackathon.org/), civil servant. 5+ years professional experience in data mining, modeling, and visualization. Kate has a passion for data, civic tech, healthy skepticism, and board games.
Trump Administration Transition & Change Management
David Clare will be focusing on a series of Bloomberg Government articles about change management (https://about.bgov.com/blog/trump-daunting-change-management-challenge/) and the transition of administrations.
Understanding Government Employee Feedback
Join your fellow data visualizers for David Aja’s presentation of the EFS Dashboard – a dash boarding and analytics tool he coded and designed himself in Shiny. David designed EFS to help simplify the process of analyzing the results of GAO’s annual employee feedback survey. David says that goal of EFS is t to reduce the amount of labor required to get to survey graphs- through building a cloud cloud-based way to collect and analyze survey results.
RStudio developed Shiny as a web application framework for R, designed to turn your analyses into interactive web applications. No HTML, CSS, or JavaScript knowledge required.
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Agenda
6:30 - 7:10 - Networking
7:10 – 7:20 – Introductions and Sponsors
7:20 – 8:10 – Lightning Talks
8:10 - 8:20 – Q&A
8:20 - 8:40 – Voting & Awards
8:40 - Data Drinks
Sponsor Data Community DC:
Reach 500 Data Practitioners each month, and a growing video audience (http://www.datacommunitydc.org/sponsor-us/).
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Lightning Awards