ETech 2008 schedule

Monday 3rd March 2008

• Live, Vast and Deep: Web-native Information Visualization

  by Tom Carden

  Information visualization is moving out of the research lab and into our everyday lives. This workshop will share Stamen's approach to visualization, outlining the process of taking real data from an online API and shaping it into an informative, beautiful, and useful interactive graphic presentation.

  • Data Visualization
  • infovis

  At 8:30am to 12:00pm, Monday 3rd March

  Coverage write-up

Wednesday 5th March 2008

• Ride the Fire Eagle: Open Location for All

  by Tom Coates

  What would the world be like if everything on the network responded to your location? Social sites could become friend-finders, mobile devices could tell you about your environment, your home could respond to your proximity or absence. Fire Eagle is a new open geo platform designed to make this a reality.

  In this session, Tom will talk about some of the problems that have stopped location-sensitive services going mainstream, location brokerage as a new architectural layer to bind together geo-services, and how Fire Eagle gives users unprecedented control over their data and privacy.

  • Context and Location-based Services
  • Data Brokerage
  • Fire Eagle
  • Geolocation
  • Yahoo!

  At 9:30am to 9:40am, Wednesday 5th March