still meeting?

[shevek]

Hi,

I like data viz.

can someone please say if this group is still meeting?

Thanks,

Shevek

[Bram Pitoyo]

> can someone please say if this group is still meeting?

Could you help plan the next meeting?

Pick a date, time, frequency (monthly?) and venue. I can contact
WebTrends after you have these details. We can then announce it to
this group.

There’s enough interest, but not enough time to plan. If you could
help do the aforementioned bit, that’ll be more than enough to get
this group going again.

Interested? Email me: bramp...@gmail.com

–Bram

[Amber Case]

True - the thing is that summer is really quite a busy time of year, and that this group will really ramp up again in the winter. 

I agree with Bram. Pick a time - and we can have another meeting a Webtrends within a few weeks. 

-Amber 

[Joe Meyer]

DataViz,

how about Monday, September 7th?

I'd like to participate in a discussion of the new and improved data.gov site.

I also have some education graphics I would like feedback on.

thanks,

Shev

[Bram Pitoyo]

Hi Joe,

This topic seems to sync up very well with the PDX Critique group.
Plus, they also meet on Monday. I’ll forward this message to them and
see what they’d think about doing something together.

---

Hi Stacey, Ben and Janet,

The Portland Data Visualization user group is, like many other groups
around town, dormant over summer. This afternoon, Joe Meyer posted to
the group, expressing interest in starting it up again.

The subject that he brought up was this:

> I'd like to participate in a discussion of the new and improved
> data.gov site.
>
> I also have some education graphics I would like feedback on.

This, to me, sounds like a topic that could be perfect for PDXCritique.

Combine this with the Monday meeting time that he proposed—

> DataViz, how about Monday, September 7th?

—that makes me think that it might be good to do something together
around it. What do you guys think?

Warmly,
Bram

[benh]

Sorry the first email bounced as I was not a member of the group,
fixed and resending...


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: benh <ben.h...@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 15:02
Subject: Re: [pdx-visualization] Re: still meeting?
To: pdxcr...@googlegroups.com
Cc: pdx-visu...@googlegroups.com, Ross Christian Freeman Levin
<cxr_f...@hotmail.com>


Hello all involved, I think that PDXCritique would be a perfect venue
for this discussion. Though our next meeting is going to be mostly
social (http://calagator.org/events/1250457557) with the intent of
working out the where/when to meet details that have been so hard to
workout post cubespace. We would love to have you join us and help
with the discussion, though I can not make any promises on time
available to get to a discussion about data.gov as I would really like
to work things out so that we can get back on track.

--
benh~

http://three.sentenc.es/



--
benh~

http://three.sentenc.es/

[M. Edward (Ed) Borasky]

Yeah ... isn't Monday 7 September Labor Day?? No point in meeting
then.

On Aug 20, 3:06 pm, benh <ben.hen...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Sorry the first email bounced as I was not a member of the group,
> fixed and resending...
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: benh <ben.hen...@gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 15:02
> Subject: Re: [pdx-visualization] Re: still meeting?
> To: pdxcr...@googlegroups.com
>
> Cc: pdx-visu...@googlegroups.com, Ross Christian Freeman Levin

> <cxr_free...@hotmail.com>

>
> Hello all involved, I think that PDXCritique would be a perfect venue
> for this discussion. Though our next meeting is going to be mostly
> social (http://calagator.org/events/1250457557) with the intent of
> working out the where/when to meet details that have been so hard to
> workout post cubespace. We would love to have you join us and help
> with the discussion, though I can not make any promises on time
> available to get to a discussion about data.gov as I would really like
> to work things out so that we can get back on track.
>

[stabler]

Hi everyone...I'm interested in getting together. I've been using R
for 8 years and have contributed a couple of packages to CRAN
(shapefiles and emme2). Currently, I'm developing some visualization
tools with Flex and love it. Can I help with putting together a
meeting?

[Amber Case]

Great! Let's plan for one in the next month. Webtrends is a good place
to host this type of meeting. Please ping me in a few weeks and I will
arrange for a meeting.

Sent from my external proesthetic device.
http://www.twitter.com/caseorganic

[Webb Sprague]

I would love to see the group start meeting again, and will attend if
I am in town.

-W

[Amber Case]

Great! I am excited too. Often hard to run events in the summer.

Sent from my external proesthetic device.
http://www.twitter.com/caseorganic

On Sep 29, 2009, at 9:53 PM, Webb Sprague <webb.s...@gmail.com>
wrote:

[M. Edward (Ed) Borasky]

OK ... my latest foray back into algorithmic composition is wrapped up
and I'm ready to move back into visualization (and sonification, of
course) ;-). If enough people are interested, I can re-run my short
(1 hour) "Getting Started With R" lecture from CodeCamp last summer.
We'd need a place with wifi and enough power outlets for all who
wanted to bring laptops. Windows, Mac and Linux all work fine, and R
is getting close to the 2.10.0 release.

The 2.10.0 release is in alpha test at the moment and is scheduled for
Monday, October 26, 2009. I'll be alpha-testing it later this week,
but only on Linux 64-bit (and only on openSUSE 11.2 Milestone 8, which
I'm also testing.) ;-)

P.S.: Most of the openSUSE testing I'm doing is audio-related.
openSUSE has fallen behind Debian / Ubuntu and Fedora in the audio
realm, and I'm hoping I can light a fire under the openSUSE kernel
gang to make sure the 11.2 kernels are audio-ready.

--
M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
http://borasky-research.net

"I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God." ~Alan Hovhaness

[Brent Dombrowski]

I am very interested. October is a bit busy for me, would some time in
November be convenient?

Brent Dombrowski

[Amber Case]

November is a good time. Early November would be the best.

I was thinking up to 5 presenters for 10 minutes each, and the rest of
the time spent networking or breaking out into smaller rooms.
Webtrends has a lot of rooms we can use so it is perfect for this.

-Amber

Amber Case
Cyborg Anthropologist
caseo...@gmail.com
http://oakhazelnut.com
http://www.twitter.com/caseorganic

[Christopher Knaus]

Hey there,

If there is any chance of this being scheduled for a time other than Wed
or Thu evening, I would certainly appreciate it. But no need to
inconvenience others.

Are the folks on this list familiar with the VizThink webcasts? Some
interesting topics - I highly recommend the one on visual note taking
with Mike Rohde, Sunni Brown and Austin Kleon.

http://vizthink.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=435&Itemid=370

Later...
Christopher Knaus

[Amber Case]

Great - will keep that in mind. Will try for Tuesday evening.

[Brent Dombrowski]

If evening can start around 7:30pm I can make Tuesday.

Thanks,
Brent Dombrowski

[M. Edward (Ed) Borasky]

On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Brent Dombrowski
<brent.do...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> If evening can start around 7:30pm I can make Tuesday.
>
> Thanks,
> Brent Dombrowski

Does WebTrends still close "early?" We ran into time pressure the last
time we were there because we had to be out at 9 PM.

[Ben Stabler]

I'm available Tuesday Nov 3rd and Tuesday Nov 17th but not Tuesday Nov 10th.  Hopefully that works for others.

Thanks - Ben

[Amber Case]

It is looking good for tuesday the third. Seven thirty pm. Any objections? 

Sent from my external proesthetic device.

http://www.twitter.com/caseorganic

[Amber Case]

I just E-mailed Webtrends about reserving a space for that time. If we have no conflicts, we'll have another meetup. I'll try to get someone from Periscopic and the Data Viz Salmon project to present. It's a fine example of data viz. 

-Amber

[M. Edward (Ed) Borasky]

7:30 PM Tuesday works for me. Ten minutes each?

[Amber Case]

Yes - that way we can get through some examples without spending too
long on any subject.

[Amber Case]

Please mark your calendars: 

The next PDX Data Viz meetup will occur 

Tuesday, November 3rd at 7:30 pm

at webtrends | 851 SW 6th Ave, Suite 1600, Portland, OR 97204

If you'd like, bring a short demo or topic to discuss for no more than 10 minutes.

Ideas for this meetup are always welcome. 

-Amber 

On Oct 6, 2009, at 8:32 AM, Brent Dombrowski wrote:

[M. Edward (Ed) Borasky]

On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Amber Case <caseo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Please mark your calendars:
> The next PDX Data Viz meetup will occur
> Tuesday, November 3rd at 7:30 pm
> at webtrends | 851 SW 6th Ave, Suite 1600, Portland, OR 97204
> If you'd like, bring a short demo or topic to discuss for no more than 10
> minutes.
> Ideas for this meetup are always welcome.
> -Amber

Calagator? Upcoming? Facebook? I'll do a Facebook page and create the
event -- been meaning to do that. Once it's on Upcoming, I can post it
to some LinkedIn groups too.

If I can get it built by then, I'll do a "sonification" of some stock
market data. There are algorithms out there - I just need to track
them down and code them. As you might recall, the period from
September 15 of last year to about 100 days into the Obama Presidency
is rather "interesting". ;-)

[Matt Youell]

On Oct 9, 4:04 pm, "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <zzn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> them down and code them. As you might recall, the period from
> September 15 of last year to about 100 days into the Obama Presidency
> is rather "interesting". ;-)

I heard it sounds like the opening to "Smoke on the Water". And if you
play it backwards it says Ben Bernake is dead.

--
-/matt/-
http://youell.com/matt

[M. Edward (Ed) Borasky]

I suppose next you'll be telling me Bernie Madoff got the Nobel
Economics Prize. ;-)


>
> --
> -/matt/-
> http://youell.com/matt

[Amber Case]

A facebook page would be good. Calagator good too.