Blagen Block building (Thetus Corporation)

Noah Pep­per is the founder and CEO of Lucky Sort, Inc. a data min­ing and visu­al­iza­tion com­pany based in Port­land, OR. Noah will be talk­ing about Text Visu­al­iza­tion. Before found­ing Lucky Sort in May 2011, he was Direc­tor of Research and Devel­op­ment for Qmedtrix, a Portland-based firm in the med­ical insur­ance indus­try, where he led a team that devel­oped a machine learn­ing and visu­al­iza­tion plat­form to detect fraud & abuse in med­ical reimbursements.

Noah is going to dive into how Luck Sort has dealt with screen real estate, sen­sory over­load and non-technical users. “Start­ing from a touch inter­face and mov­ing to the web, we’ve been design­ing and iter­at­ing around user’s work­flows. Our pro­to­types were all wrong but we’ve focused on chang­ing quickly.”

This is going to be a pre­sen­ta­tion on how Lucky Sort’s inter­face has evolved. The talk will be on how UX design, pro­to­types, and the need to cre­ate an user cen­tric experience.

The doors will be open at 5:30pm. Please join us for a half hour of net­work­ing before the talk. We will have beer & snacks.

The pre­sen­ta­tions will start at 6pm & should last for about an hour includ­ing ques­tions & the two talks.

Come and learn about implementing advanced datagrids in the browser with Daniel Spirn and Ryan Miller of Marin Software.

Daniel will talk about about the UX of datagirds, filters and search, the dos and don'ts and some common patterns.

Ryan will detail how datagrids that handle millions of rows are implemented at Marin with JavaScript and HTML.

The doors will be open at 5:30pm. Please join us for a half hour of networking before the talk. We will have beer & snacks.

The presentations will start at 6pm & should last for about an hour including questions & the two talks.