Show and Tell with the Los Angeles Times Data Desk

Join the Los Angeles Times Data Desk (https://twitter.com/LATdatadesk) for a behind-the-scenes tour of their work. (details below)

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Parking for the Hacks/Hackers Event: There is some metered parking on 2nd Street, and there are commercial parking structures one block south on Figueroa St., at either the WH Grand Hotel, or across the street at the L.A. World Trade Center.

The buildings at The Park are color-coded, and the event is on the 2nd Floor of the YELLOW building

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Join the Los Angeles Times Data Desk (https://twitter.com/LATdatadesk) for a behind-the-scenes tour of their work.

Ben Welsh (http://palewi.re/who-is-ben-welsh/) will provide a brief overview and explain how a small band of nerds is working to rewire the largest newsroom in the West.

Members of the Data Desk will then take the stage to explain how they developed a recent project.

• Ryan Menezes (https://twitter.com/ryanvmenezes) and Zahira Torres (https://twitter.com/zahiratorres) will unpack how they acquired, analyzed and presented the data behind a first-of-its-kind survey (http://schools.latimes.com/grading-the-arts/) of arts education at more than 700 L.A. Unified schools.

• Nicole Santa Cruz (https://twitter.com/nicolesantacruz) will explain how she combines technology with old-fashioned shoeleather reporting to serve as the lead reporter for The Homicide Report (http://homicide.latimes.com/), an interactive map, database and blog that chronicles killings in Los Angeles County.

• Armand Emamdjomeh (http://emamd.net/) will map out how he created an interactive tour of Mars' Gale Crater (http://graphics.latimes.com/mars-gale-crater-vr/) that works on the open web as well as virtual reality headsets like Google's Cardboard and the Oculus Rift.

Audience members have the opportunity to ask questions of all involved.

Pizza will be served.