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DESCRIPTION: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. \n\nUsing 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 be
 fore they call their doctors. When he mapped this data\, he was able to 
 discover where flu outbreaks would strike up to two weeks before traditi
 onal news sources were able to report them. http://www.google.org/flutre
 nds/\n\nThis is an example of a time when merging a specific type of dat
 a to its geographical coordinates resulted in a unique insight. However\
 , there is much more to do with data and visualization. What was found a
 t Google is only the tip of a very large iceberg. Now that we have acces
 s to so much data on the web\, we're going to see an increasing need to 
 understand and present that data. \n\nAgenda:\nThis 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 exist
 s in the ecosystem and what might become useful in the future. We're dea
 ling with a rapid communication method here. Something that\, if done we
 ll\, compresses the time and space it takes for us to understand somethi
 ng. \n\nIf you're interested in Data Visualization\, please come to this
  event. It will be the first Portland Tech Event at WebTrends besides We
 b Analytics Wednesday. It's our chance to try out the space and see if i
 t is a good fit for this group or potentially for other groups in the fu
 ture. \n\nGoogle Group: \nEd Borasky recently started a Google group cal
 led pdx-visualization. As the name implies\, it is a group for Portland-
 area people interested in languages and techniques for visualization of 
 data. http://groups.google.com/group/pdx-visualization\n\n------\n\nAmbe
 r Case\, @caseorganic is a Cyborg Anthropologist studying the interactio
 n between humans and computers and how our relationship with information
  is changing the way we think\, act\, and understand the world around us
 . \n\n\nTags: data visualization\, technology\, portland tech\, trending
 \, analytics\, analysis\n\nImported from: http://calagator.org/events/12
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URL:http://groups.google.com/group/pdx-visualization
SUMMARY:Portland Data Visualization Group
LOCATION:Webtrends: 851 SW 6th Ave.\, Suite 1600\, Portland OR 97204 US
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