BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID;X-RICAL-TZSOURCE=TZINFO:-//Calagator//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:Calagator METHOD:PUBLISH VERSION:2.0 BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID;X-RICAL-TZSOURCE=TZINFO:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20090308T020000 RDATE:20090308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090303T051824Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090323T200000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090323T180000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090303T051824Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090303T052025Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250456781 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 America ns enter phrases like “flu symptoms” into Google and other search engine s 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 tra ditional news sources were able to report them. http://www.google.org/fl utrends/ \;\n \;\nThis is an example of a time when merging a spec ific type of data to its geographical coordinates resulted in a unique i nsight. 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 th at we have access to so much data on the web\, we're going to see an inc reasing 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 de monstrate something you're working on\, please be prepared to do so. Mic ah 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 beco me 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. \;\n \;\nIf you're interest ed in Data Visualization\, please come to this event. It will be the fir st 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 g roup or potentially for other groups in the future. \;\n \;\nGoog le Group: \;\nEd Borasky recently started a Google group called pdx- visualization. As the name implies\, it is a group for Portland-area peo ple interested in languages and techniques for visualization of data. ht tp://groups.google.com/group/pdx-visualization \;\n \;\n------ \;\n \;\nAmber Case\, @caseorganic is a Cyborg Anthropologist studyin g 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. \;\n\n\nTags: data visualization\, technology\, po rtland tech\, trending\, analytics\, analysis\n\nImported from: http://c alagator.org/events/1250456781 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 SEQUENCE:0 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR