[Crib-list] SPEAKER, Nicholas Arcolano - CRIBB Seminar - Fri., May 1, 2015 - 12:00 Noon - Bldg. 32, Room 124 (Stata Center)

[Shirley Entzminger]

  		  COMPUTATIONAL RESEARCH in BOSTON and BEYOND SEMINAR


DATE:		FRIDAY, MAY 1, 2015
TIME:		12:00 Noon
LOCATION:	Building 32, Room 124  (Stata Center)
  		[32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA]

  	Pizza and beverages will be provided at 11:45 AM outside Room 124.


TITLE:		Bridging the Gap Between Data and Insight Using Open-Source 
Tools


SPEAKER:	NICHOLAS ARCOLANO  (RunKeeper)


ABSTRACT:

Despite the proliferation of open-source tools for analysis (such as Python and 
R) and those used for visualization (such as Javascript / D3), there often 
exist significant gaps between these areas, and those of us trying to navigate 
the complete arc from data to insight can encounter many obstacles along the 
way.  Fortunately, in recent years there have been many efforts to fill these 
needs, and today distilling a meaningful visualization from raw data is faster 
and easier than ever before.

In this talk we will use will use examples in geospatial analysis and 
visualization to illustrate how to open-source tools like Python, geopandas, 
and TileMill work together. Using examples from the RunKeeper mobile app we 
will show how we currently use these tools to understand better our customers 
and their data, and to communicate with our colleagues, external partners, and 
the data community at large.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA



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