Add an eventSessions at OSCON 2011 about Open Data in Oregon Convention Center
Wednesday 27th July 2011
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Transit Appliances: Open Data, Open Hardware and Open Source Software
by Chris Smith
The Transit Appliance project uses real-time arrival web services, low-cost hardware like the Chumby, a light layer of open source JavaScript business logic and JSON data stores to put transit information in front of users in building lobbies, cafes and other public and private locations at disruptively low costs.
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Open APIs for Open Government Data
The Sunlight Foundation and its partner organizations make a variety of data on the influence of money in politics and the operation of government easily available to application developers. This talk will give a broad overview of the data sets and APIs available and the applications that have been built with them, including stand alone sites, browser extensions and mobile apps.
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Open Data & Open Source in Advancing Personalized Medicine
by Charlie Quinn
Case study in using open data and open source systems to enable research in personalized medicine. Will show how we leverage publicly available data along with clinical and experimental data from collaborators in 5 different countries to advance disease detection and personalized medicine.
Thursday 28th July 2011
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Explorable Microscopy: Bringing Gigapixel Imagery to the Micro Scale
by Rich Gibson, Schuyler Erle and Anne Wright
The Explorable Microscopy project is creating open source devices to capture multi gigapixel images of small things: from frames from a bee hive down to individual diatoms.
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Open Data Business Models for Hackers
by Luke Closs
Come learn the story of the award winning VanTrash open data app and the opportunities such apps can lead to for sustainable development of open data applications. Luke will show different models that open data hackers can pursue to turn their projects into small businesses.