February Event: Sort, Cleanse and Extend your Data the Googley way + Making Blogs Graphical (with HTML5)

[Leon Gouletsas]

Hey gang,

We've got two talks in one night for our February Event this upcoming Monday, our first event for 2012.  Before you read the details below I'd encourage you to get yourselves over and signup to our MeetUp page. That's where we'll be co-ordinating and announcing events in the future. Visit http://meetup.com/melbgtug and register.

Sort, Cleanse and Extend your Data the Googley way +  Making Blogs Graphical (with HTML5) 
When: February Monday 26th from 6:30pm to 8pm
Where: ThoughtWorks Level 14, 303 Collins Street, Melbourne VIC 3000
Register: http://meetup.com/melbgtug

Sort, Cleanse and Extend your Data the Googley way

Join us as we introduce Google Refine, a powertool for cleansing messy data. 

Working offline, Leon Gouletsas (GTUG Community Organiser) will guide you through this tool to apply patterns and formulas to sort and slice your data. From there, go online to extend and append by using API calls to your favourite web services to your data. A must-see experience for any developer working with databases, or analysts who want to find deep insights in their data with low effort. 

Note: The presentation will give an overview of Google Refine and then step through a live demo. A sample data link will be given to attendees before the event so that they may try for themselves. If you'd like to follow along, bring a laptop/Chromebook on the night.  Got an interesting data problem? Bring it along with scenarios to openly discuss and share.

Making Blogs Graphical (with HTML5)

Want to make your blog more enticing and interactive? Brett Morgan (Blogger DevRel, Google) shows us how with Blogger JSON API

Leading through from technical to aspirational of blog design, Brett will demonstrate HTML5 code and API calls to draw SVG elements to make scalable, beautiful blogs with rich animation. 

[John Scott]

Sounds good. Brett did a similar talk recently in Sydney and it was great - well worth coming for that alone I think.

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Regards,

John Scott