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  <div class="vevent h-event"> <h1 class="summary p-name">Portland Data Visualization Group</h1> <div class='date'><time class="dtstart dt-start" title="2009-03-23T18:00:00" datetime="2009-03-23T18:00:00">Monday, March 23, 2009 from 6</time>–<time class="dtend dt-end" title="2009-03-23T20:00:00" datetime="2009-03-23T20:00:00">8pm</time></div> <div class="location vcard p-location h-card"> <a class="url" href='http://calagator.org/venues/202390594'><span class='fn org p-name'>Webtrends</span></a> <div class="adr p-adr h-adr"> <div class="street-address p-street-address">851 SW 6th Ave., Suite 1600</div> <span class="locality p-locality">Portland</span> , <span class="region p-region">OR</span> <span class="postal-code p-postal-code">97204</span> <div class="country-name p-country-name">US</div> (<a href='https://maps.google.com/maps?q=851%20SW%206th%20Ave.,%20Suite%201600,%20Portland%20OR%2097204%20US'>map</a>) </div> </div> <div class="description p-description"> <p>Researchers have long said that the material published on the Web amounts to a form of “collective intelligence” that can be used to spot trends and make predictions.</p> <p>Using his 20% time, a Google employee discovered that during flu season, many ailing Americans enter phrases like “flu symptoms” into Google and other search engines before they call their doctors. When he mapped this data, he was able to discover where flu outbreaks would strike up to two weeks before traditional news sources were able to report them. <a href="http://www.google.org/flutrends/">http://www.google.org/flutrends/</a></p> <p>This is an example of a time when merging a specific type of data to its geographical coordinates resulted in a unique insight. However, there is much more to do with data and visualization. What was found at Google is only the tip of a very large iceberg. Now that we have access to so much data on the web, we're going to see an increasing need to understand and present that data.</p> <p><strong>Agenda:</strong> This meetup will serve as an introduction to what's going on in the world of data viz. It will be freeform, so if you would like to demonstrate something you're working on, please be prepared to do so. Micah Elliott will be showing uGraph and Ed Borasky will do a GGobi demo. I'll be covering what already exists in the ecosystem and what might become useful in the future. We're dealing with a rapid communication method here. Something that, if done well, compresses the time and space it takes for us to understand something.</p> <p>If you're interested in Data Visualization, please come to this event. It will be the first Portland Tech Event at WebTrends besides Web Analytics Wednesday. It's our chance to try out the space and see if it is a good fit for this group or potentially for other groups in the future.</p> <p><strong>Google Group:</strong> Ed Borasky recently started a Google group called pdx-visualization. As the name implies, it is a group for Portland-area people interested in languages and techniques for visualization of data. <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/pdx-visualization">http://groups.google.com/group/pdx-visualization</a></p> <hr> <p>Amber Case, <a href="http://www.twitter.com/caseorganic">@caseorganic</a> is a Cyborg Anthropologist studying the interaction between humans and computers and how our relationship with information is changing the way we think, act, and understand the world around us.</p> </div> <h3>Links</h3> <ul> <li><a class="url u-url" href="http://groups.google.com/group/pdx-visualization">Website</a></li> </ul> </div>