Big Data Week London – Data Visualization London

Data Visualization London meetup

The Data Visualization London consists of a group of people who are interested in visualization of Big Data to show insights and answers within the data.

Date/Time: Wednesday 25′th of April – 6.30 PM – Late

REGISTER HERE : Data Visualization London

Hashtags: #dvldn #bdw

Twitter – @bigdataweek/@dvizldn

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Agenda

18:30 – Welcome and networking (maybe some beer and pizza)

19:00 – 10-15 min. talks

1.Paul Gesiak – Data Scientist @Datasift - Gephi on steroids

Visualizing breaking news using Gephi in real time.

2. Ben Hagan – D3 and the real time firehose

Driving 250m tweets into a visualization.

3. James Cheshire – Spatial Analysis and CASA

Dr. James Cheshire is a lecturer at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis. James’ research focuses on the analysis and visualisation of large population datasets, and he is becoming increasingly renowned for producing visualisations with the R software platform. His work has been featured in the likes of National Geographic Magazine, The Times Atlas of London and the Evening Standard.

Title: Sensing the City: Mapping and Analysing London’s Population Data Flows

4. Francesco D’Orazio - 10 reasons why we visualize data

The cognitive and strategic reasons why data viz really makes a difference on dealing with big data.

20:00 – QA session

20:30 – Wrap up and continue networking at the pub.