DVDC: ChatGPT Viz and Building Data Maturity
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Data Visualization DC Monthly Meetup -- Every 2nd Thursday
THIS IS A HYBRID EVENT. PLEASE INDICATE IF YOU ARE ATTENDING IN PERSON OR VIRTUALLY!
Join Data Viz DC for our monthly meetup to talk shop with data viz enthusiasts, meet other data visualization professionals, learn more about data visualization tools, tricks, and jobs, and share your own work in a Viz and Tell talk!
If you're interested in the intersection of Data Science, Visual Design, UI/UX, Art, Psychology, and Business Intelligence, this event is for you.
**** Transitioning to Coding for Data Visualization
Looking to start coding or level up your coding skills to build graphs and dashboards? Join us for a presentation on how GPT can expedite your transition from no-code or low-code tools to code-based data visualizations in R or Python. We'll talk about writing specific prompts, the process of iteration and troubleshooting, and how to ensure you know what your code is doing.
Abigail Haddad is a data scientist. She's been working with GPT on code development, reducing technical debt, and semantic search capabilities. This is her GitHub and this is her substack.
**** Building Data Maturity for Community Empowerment
Systemically underserved communities in the US are disproportionately impacted by external stressors such as global pandemics, racism, and public policy decisions. Washington, DC contains many of these communities. DataKind DC partnered with local nonprofit Starting With Today (SWT) to help them better serve communities in and around the Capitol.
SWT, like many local nonprofit organizations, has grown rapidly in recent years to meet demand for much-needed services, and is now ready to focus on growing their data maturity to help meet those needs. Additionally, SWT works with individuals who may have limited access to technology and in settings such as mental health services where stigma and privacy concerns make data collection and tracking challenging.
The DataKind team had to be creative and use multiple open-source datasets and web scraping to generate a product that would allow SWT to visualize areas with the highest needs and potential partners for its mission.
Juan Vega is a Data Scientist with a passion for extracting insights from data to support strategic decision-making and advancing public policies that improve the wellbeing of underserved communities. He serves as Director of Learning and Evaluation at the Latin American Youth Center where he leads the data collection, analysis, and reporting efforts of the organization to tell the story of program practices that lead to positive outcomes for underserved youth in the Washington, DC, metropolitan area. Juan’s personal interests include serving at his local church, in the Spanish-speaking community of Washington, DC, and exploring new cities with his wife.
Register virtually at:
https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0tdO2orjstEtyZzQIEbRymdM4eY1iQHrv9
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Agenda:
6:00 - 6:30: Food and networking
6:30 - 6:45: Introductions
6:45 - 7:15: Cutting the Learning Curve with GPT
7:15 - 7:45: Building Data Maturity for Community Empowerment
7:45 - 8:00: Closing
8:00 ~ Data Drinks at Courthouse Social
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Viz and Tell
Get up in front of your peers and talk about a viz project you're working on for 5 minutes. This is a great opportunity to display your work, practice your presentation skills in a safe space. If you are interested in presenting please fill our our brief form:
https://forms.gle/9a3ssbVbwQFjpWdY8
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Learn more at www.datavizdc.com
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Data Viz DC is a member of Data Community DC, a nonprofit dedicated to data education in the nation's capital. Learn more at www.datacommunitydc.org
