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Date: Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 4:00 PM
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Hello, The Strata Conference call for speakers is open: in New York the deadline is May 16; the London event deadline is May 28. Cheers, —Marsee Henon and Jon Johns Available for Review The UG team is looking for reviewers for the following books & videos. Consider posting your reviews on Amazon, Slashdot, oreilly.com, and/or your blog. JavaScript for PHP Developers Graph Databases Cryptography for Developers It's easy for you to get books for your meeting or special events—just email userg...@oreilly.com and include the words "book request" in the subject line. Don't forget to include your deadline and shipping address. Prefer ebooks? We can send you a free ebook certificate to print out for raffles or book reviewers. New Releases AnDevCon Spring The technical conference for software developers building or selling Android apps is coming to Boston May 28-31. It will offer one day of intensive tutorials, followed by three days of technical classes. More than 1,000 software developers, engineers and entrepreneurs from 25 nations are projected to attend AnDevCon and choose from 70+ classes to bring Android open source development to a high level. Expo Hall is free, and receive a $100 discount with code OREILLY. Leveraging Lean Analytics with Social Media Monitoring It turns out the old adage “if you build it, they will come,†shouldn’t always apply to starting a business, “It should be ‘if they come, you will build it,’†or at least that’s what entrepreneur Alistair Croll would argue. The Solve for Interesting founder and Lean Analytics author explained why this business model has it backwards during a Q&A video shot at this year’s SXSW Interactive Festival. Learn more and watch the interview on the Lean Circle Blog. Every Leader Has Their “How I Got Here†Story Opportunity to share your data stories with Brett Goldstein and Q. Ethan McCallum We need you and your stories to educate analytics practitioners, improve the field as a whole, and show people what works. Not sure we really mean you? If you run a data-driven company, talk to us. If you’ve grown your internal analytics team from one person to five, or even fifty, we want to hear from you. If you’re a hands-on data scientist who has learned when the popular tools and techniques lose their sheen, let us know. If you’ve had a hand in building out an analytics practice, or running a data-driven company, we want to hear from you. If you still are not sure, just reach out. It’s always nice to say hello. A Game World You Explore Using Your Programming Skills CheckiO is hosting its first global competition. Complete tasks for prizes from github, O'Reilly Media, and more. Compete for the most creative code solutions. Compete against other users through a series of tasks to write the best, most creative python code. The top 3 contestants in each task will win the latest edition of Python Cookbook Are you an innovator? Head to the O’Reilly Land on CheckiO to prove it. Strata Online Conference: Mobility, Data, and Analytics Presented by: Alistair Croll Duration: Approx. 90 min. Cost: Free Wednesday, June 5, 2013 9AM PT, San Francisco In this Strata Online event, we'll look at some of the ways the rise of the always-on world is feeding the hungry engines of Big Data. From new approaches to interface design, to the Internet of Everything, to the lifeline of a single SMS, our mobile phones are fast becoming a prosthetic brain—and Big Data is its synapses. Put Up a Banner & Get a Free Book—UG Leaders Only We're looking for groups to display our discount banners on their websites. If you send us your group's site with one or more banners posted, we'll send you the O'Reilly book(s) of your choice. Choose from the following list of banners: Velocity Conference Banners Velocity Conference Slides Fluent Conference Banners Fluent Conference Slides UG Program Banners UG Discount Banners Buy 1 Ebook, Get 1 Free with your user group discount code: DSUG2 Looking for more? Visit oreilly.com.

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