Improving weather storytelling with "earth": an animated global wind map

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Hacks/Hackers Tokyo (https://twitter.com/hhtyo) is excited to welcome Cameron Beccario (https://twitter.com/cambecc) for a presentation on the development of his beautiful and world‑renowned animated global wind map (http://earth.nullschool.net) and how it's being used to improve weather storytelling (Wednesday, March 25, 19:00-21:00).

Guest:

Cameron Beccario is a software engineer originally from Iowa, USA, but now living in Tokyo. He works at Indeed, where he helps people get jobs. Previously, he was manager of the core services team at TradingScreen, and a compiler engineer at Microsoft. He received his bachelor's degree from Iowa State University in computer engineering. In his spare time he has turned into a weather and open data enthusiast.

Schedule:

19:00: Doors open

19:30-20:30: Presentation

20:30-21:00: Free time

Venue Sponsor:

The Asahi Shimbun (http://ajw.asahi.com/information/about_us/)

Venue:

Asahi Shimbun Media Lab, Shibuya Branch (http://goo.gl/wZ5ZQL)

Holtz Hosokawa Building 4th Floor

Jingumae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 6-19-21 Japan