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<p>• 6:30 - 7:00: Networking</p> <p><br>• 7:00 - 7:15: Ed Borasky will give a wrap-up of the most interesting projects shown at the <a href="http://ire.org/conferences/nicar-2014/schedule/">NICAR 2014 conference in Baltimore</a>.</p> <p>• 7:15 - 7:45: <a href="http://www.meetup.com/Hack-Oregon-Data-Visualization-for-Public-Good/members/122575052/">Catherine Nikolovski</a> of <a href="http://www.hackoregon.org/">Hack Oregon</a> will talk about mining and visualizing the <a href="https://secure.sos.state.or.us/orestar/gotoPublicTransactionSearch.do">ORESTAR campaign finance database</a>. She'll also talk about a new project called BallotPath, which will deliver a complete list of all elected officials, from school district up to Governor and Senator to a voter based on location.</p> <p>• 7:45 - ??: Hands-on tool gathering. Bring your laptop, and an 8 GB or bigger USB stick (or writable DVD if you must). Ed will have copies of <a href="http://live.osgeo.org/en/index.html">OSGeo Live</a>, <a href="https://tails.boum.org/">Tails</a> and of course <a href="http://znmeb.github.io/CompJournoStick/">CompJournoStick</a>.</p> |
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<p>• 6:30 - 7:00: Networking</p> <p><br>• 7:00 - 7:15: Ed Borasky will give a wrap-up of the most interesting projects shown at the <a href="http://ire.org/conferences/nicar-2014/schedule/">NICAR 2014 conference in Baltimore</a>.</p> <p>• 7:15 - 7:45: Catherine Nikolovski of <a href="http://www.hackoregon.org/">Hack Oregon</a> will talk about mining and visualizing the ORESTAR campaign finance database. She'll also talk about a new project called BallotPath, which will deliver a complete list of all elected officials, from school district up to Governor and Senator to a voter based on location.</p> <p>• 7:45 - ??: Hands-on tool gathering. Bring your laptop, and an 8 GB or bigger USB stick (or writable DVD if you must). Ed will have copies of OSGeo Live, Tails, and of course <a href="http://znmeb.github.io/CompJournoStick/">CompJournoStick</a>.</p> |