Data Science for Journalists
Seminar for journalists on the application of data science:
– generating data
– storage/retrieval
– analysis
– visualization
Focus on open data, easy hacking methods with ipython notebooks.
Sponsored by SAS Institute:
“SAS Data Day”
Quantified Self Europe Conference: “Quantified Self and Philosophy”
(See a summery here at the site http://quantifiedself.com)
At the Quantified Self Europe Conference 2014, which took place on May 10th and 11th, we hosted a session to discuss philosophical, and especially ethical aspects of self-tracking. Here are our slides with comments:
And here is the summary of the session on quantifiedself.com.
Augmented Ubiquity, Quantified Self, Big Data – Die aktuellen Social-Web-Trends für Unternehmen
Parliamentary Hearing on a new Media Law
Expert hearing on the revision of the state’s media legislation –
Anhörung des Landtags Nordrhein-Westfalen zur Neufassung des Landesmediengesetzes:
(My expertise in German)
re:publica 2014: “Open Foresight”
“The future is already there, it is just not evenly distributed” as William Gibson said.
At re:publica 2014 conference in Berlin we will demonstrate methods and tools to make good predictions and foresighting from sources found on the Net.
“With Big Data comes the end of the pundit” – foresight, predicting the future from the present, has always been the realm of obscure trend researchers, strategy planners, intelligence services or the RAND Corporation.
To get to useful insights about the changes in society, politics, culture, or technology, we do no longer have to rely on the esoteric, propriatory knowledge of individual researchers or institutes. We can harvest the tremendous treasure that lies at hands in the Internet.
In our session we will demostrate at real cases how to derive patterns and trends from sources like Twitter, Google Books or Google Correlate without heavy programming skills; we will search blogs with self-made crawlers, we will demonstrate how to find and visualize Twitter networks, and how to get information on people’s behavior using meta-data (just like the NSA does according to Snowden …)
Come to our session:
re:publica conference
Wednesday, May 7th at 12:30pm
stage B
Link to the re:publica-site:
re:publica 2014: Open Foresight
Netzdebatte live auf der re:publica14: Alexander Mankowsky und Jörg Blumtritt
Panel discussion: Is Mr. X dead? Anonymity in market research
SLS14: Generating Data
Talk on how data is generated continuously, and how it can be harvested, crawled, scraped, etc. – and analyzed with open tools:
Berlin Social Learning Space 2014
“Data Generation” – Social Learning Space
Fachbereich Philosophie und Geisteswissenschaften, Berlin Media Professional School, Feb 27 2014
Social Learing Space 2014