Sessions at OSCON Data 2011 matching your filters

Monday 25th July 2011

• Playful Explorations of Public and Personal Data

  by Andrew Turner

  It’s easy to find and create data. But what are you going to do with it? Can I ask the world complex questions such as what’s the local crime rate, distance to metro, or rating of my local school? Can you combine these all together to rate houses you may want to buy? And how do you then connect back to your government and local businesses to engage in collaborative decision making.

  This talk with discuss how you should consider users and their personal interactions with data and information. We’ll also peel back the covers on how open source tools such as HBase, Cascading, Geos and Polymaps handle analyzing and streaming realtime data to maps and visualizations both on the web and to mobile devices.

  To illustrate what’s possible, we’ll dive through GeoCommons, a large online community of data sharing and community analytics that uses open source mapping visualization, Hadoop analysis, and mobile interfaces to provide this to the world. Users can even build and socialize their own analysis methods to share their expert knowledge with other users. We’ll also review how global organizations like the World Bank and United Nations are using these tools to connect with citizens in developing countries to empower them to make decisions on building investment and understanding how climate science may affect their areas.

  • GeoCommons
  • Geospatial
  • Hadoop
  • HBase

  At 10:40am to 11:20am, Monday 25th July

  In C124, Oregon Convention Center

  Coverage slide deck video

Tuesday 26th July 2011

• Discover and Share Spatial Resources on the Web

  by Christine White

  Sharing data is critical in a world where crisis can occur at any moment. Often, valuable data is stored in disparate locations with no information on how to access. This presentation discusses spatial data discovery and open source tools for implementing a data-sharing catalog. Esri’s Geoportal Server will be used to show sharing and discovery in action. Talk is open to all attendees.

  • ESRI
  • Geospatial

  At 3:30pm to 4:10pm, Tuesday 26th July

  In C124, Oregon Convention Center

  Coverage video

• Neo4j Spatial - Geo Data for the Rest of Us

  by Peter Neubauer

  Location-based services are hot, but geographic datasets are complex. But this shouldn’t put you off writing awesome location-aware services. This talk will show how to create spatial models and query the Open Street Map dataset together with social data using the Neo4j graph database.

  • Geospatial
  • Neo4J
  • OpenStreetMap

  At 4:20pm to 5:00pm, Tuesday 26th July

  In C124, Oregon Convention Center

  Coverage slide deck video