November Meetup Announcement, November 9th -7:30pm

[Jens Nikolaus]

Hello you,
We are happy to announce our 9th meetup!

On November 9th we will feature Till Nagel, Georgi Kobilarov and Edial
Dekker.

* Till Nagel: Unfolding Data

Till Nagel [1] gives a short introduction how interactive maps and geo
visualization help to explore and communicate multivariate data, and
shows a few examples on tangible and multitouch data vis applications.

Till [2] is a lecturer and researcher at the Interaction Design Lab,
Fachhochschule Potsdam.

* Georgi Kobilarov: When 1+1=3. On linking open data.

Open data is everywhere. Institutions and companies all around us
start to open up their databases, provide APIs and give the Web
community the power to build applications on top. But what if we could
combine all that open data to build apps no only of one open data
silo, but multiple, by cross-linking all that data data? Wouldn't that
be much more powerful?
This talk gives an intro to how this little idea - four years ago -
became the Linking Open Data project, with hundreds of connected data
sources.

Georgi [3] is the founder of Uberblic Labs, a company of data geeks in
Berlin. He developed DBpedia [4], one of the first Linked Data
projects, and helped organisations such as the BBC to use the Web as
their database.

* Edial Dekker: The Networked City

Handheld electronics, location devices, telecommunications networks,
and a wide assortment of tags and sensors are constantly producing a
rich stream of data reflecting various aspects of urban life. Managed
well, “big data” can be used to unlock new sources of economic value,
provide new insights into scions and hold governments to account.
Meanwhile, some of the world's foremost architects, planners,
policymakers, builders, and thinkers are trying to understand this
data to harness it for answers to our biggest problems.
In this talk, Edial Dekker will address the benefits of seeing cities
as a platform that is able to reinvent itself. A main theme in this
talk will be the role of data visualizations and a project called City
Crawlers Berlin.

Edial [5] is part of Your Neighbours [6], a studio that is focussed on
visualizing data and story telling.

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You found a cool new tool, technology or case that fits into the web
design frontend category? Share it with us. You are always welcome to
take a slot for a lightning talk.

The location remains unchanged and is hosted by the co.up co-working
space [7] providing chairs and drinks for cheap.

Spread the word, we are looking forward to meeting you.
—up.front.ug

In short:
Date: November 9th, 2010
Time: 7:30pm
Location: co.up
RSVP on Facebook: http://twiturl.de/upfront9
http://up.front.ug

[1] http://design.fh-potsdam.de/fachbereich/personen/portrait/nagel-till.html
[2] http://twitter.com/tillnm
[3] http://twitter.com/gkob
[4] http://dbpedia.org
[5] http://twitter.com/edial
[6] http://yourneighbours.de
[7] http://co-up.de

[Roel van der Ven]

Dude!

Impressive lineup, again :)

Keep it up man.

[electricgecko]

… wow, this is really going somewhere. count me in!