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 BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090324T211525Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090328T150000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090328T110000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090324T211525Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090324T231356Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250456875 DESCRIPTION:R\, also called GNU S\, is a strongly functional language and environment to statistically explore data sets and make many graphical displays of data. \;\n \;\nR is widely used for statistical softw are development and data analysis. R is part of the GNU project\, and it s source code is freely available under the GNU General Public License\, and pre-compiled binary versions are provided for various operating sys tems. R uses a command line interface\, though several graphical user in terfaces are available. \;\n \;\nEd Borasky will provide an introd uction to R this Saturday at Cubespace from 11Am-3Pm. Please come prepar ed with a laptop and the requisite software (link to come soon). If you have any issues installing the software\, or need help before the meetin g\, feel free to arrive at 10:30 Am. \;\n \;\nSoftware Downloads& #13\;\nUpdated to get ready for the upcoming class. There will be a few more \;\npages coming. The first will be on installing GGobi\, and th e second \;\nwill be on CRAN Task Views. \;\n \;\nClick on http ://groups.google.com/group/pdx-visualization/web/getting-started-with-th e-r-programming-language \;\n- or copy &\; paste it into your brow ser's address bar if that doesn't \;\nwork. \;\n \;\nHere's an abbreviated "\;Getting Started With GGobi"\; guide. Please try&# 13\;\nthis stuff out and let me know where it's broken. I just ran throu gh \;\nthe Windows part and the "\;Testing on a Social Network Da taset"\; part \;\nand that much of it works. :) \;\n \;\nCl ick on http://groups.google.com/group/pdx-visualization/web/getting-star ted-with-ggobi \;\n- or copy &\; paste it into your browser's addr ess bar if that doesn't \;\nwork. \;\n \;\nI added a couple of links to articles on using GGobi with social \;\nnetwork data. \;\ n \;\nClick on http://groups.google.com/group/pdx-visualization/web/g etting-started-with-ggobi \;\n- or copy &\; paste it into your bro wser's address bar if that doesn't \;\nwork. \;\n \;\nAbout R&# 13\;\n \;\nR was created by Ross Ihaka and Robert Gentleman at the Un iversity of Auckland\, New Zealand\, and is now developed by the R Devel opment Core Team. It is named partly after the first names of the first two R authors (Robert Gentleman and Ross Ihaka)\, and partly as a play o n the name of S. The R language has become a de facto standard among sta tisticians for the development of statistical software. \;\n \;\n More information: http://www.r-project.org/ \;\n \;\nJoin the Port land Data Visualization Google Group for more updates: http://groups.goo gle.com/group/pdx-visualization?hl=en. \n\nTags: data visualization\, te chnology\, portland tech\, trending\, analytics\, analysis\, data viz\, r\, programming language\, r-project\n\nImported from: http://calagator. org/events/1250456875 URL:http://groups.google.com/group/pdx-visualization?hl=en SUMMARY:Introduction to R\, Statistical Computing - Portland Data Viz LOCATION:CubeSpace [ *sniff* out of business 12 June 2009]: 622 SE Grand Ave.\, Portland Oregon 97214 USA SEQUENCE:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150403T042552Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20150618 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20150615 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150403T042552Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150403T042552Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250468162 DESCRIPTION:This event runs from Monday\, June 15\, 2015 at 9am through W ednesday\, June 17\, 2015 at 5pm.\n\nDescription:\nMonitorama is an 3-da y event for Dev and Ops practitioners to gather and discuss the past\, p resent\, and future of monitoring software and trends. Our lineups often include more abstract discussions of software craftsmanship and dealing with the human side of failure\, but the common thread through the enti re event is to advance the state of art for all software monitoring-rela ted technologies and methodologies.\n\nTags: monitoring\, trending\, dev ops\, operations\, engineering\, alerting\n\nImported from: http://calag ator.org/events/1250468162 URL:http://monitorama.com/ SUMMARY:Monitorama LOCATION:Gerding Theater at the Armory: 128 NW 11th Ave\, Portland OR 972 09 US SEQUENCE:1 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR