Interrelativity

Category: Conferences and Workshops

  • WTF Economy: Augmentation, Disintermediation and Small Acts of Production

    Tim O'Reilly (O'Reilly Media) opened last week's conference on the Next:Economy, aka the WTF economy, noting that "WTF" can signal wonder, dismay or disgust. I experienced all three reactions at different times during the ensuing two-day "investigation into the potential of emerging technologies to remake our world for the better". I attended the conference because…

  • Notes from #PyData Seattle 2015

    I was among 900 attendees at the recent PyData Seattle 2015 conference, an event focused on the use of Python in data management, analysis and machine learning. Nearly all of the tutorials & talks I attended last weekend were very interesting and informative, and several were positively inspiring. I haven't been as excited to experiment with…

  • IPython, Deep Learning & Doing Good: Some Highlights from Strata 2014

    I attended my first Strata conference last week. The program offered a nice blend of strategic and technical insights and experiences regarding the design and use of "big data" systems. Atigeo was a sponsor, and I spent much of my time in our booth demonstrating and discussing our xPatterns big data analytics platform (about which…

  • Hype, Hubs & Hadoop: Some Notes from Strata NY 2013 Keynotes

    I didn't physically attend Strata NY + Hadoop World this year, but I did watch the keynotes from the conference. O'Reilly Media kindly makes videos of the keynotes and slides of all talks available very soon after they are given. Among the recurring themes were haranguing against the hype of big data, the increasing utilization…

  • Design for Health: Notes from a Multidisciplinary CSCW 2012 Workshop

    I participated in an incredibly well organized and facilitated workshop on Brainstorming Design for Health: Helping Patients Utilize Patient-Generated Data on the Web on Saturday. The participants represented a diverse range of backgrounds and interests – even for a workshop at a Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) conference, already a particularly diverse community. Our workshop…

  • Airborne telepresence robots: 1995 & 2011

    In introducing a short Marketplace Tech Report story about a floating blimp telepresence avatar this morning, host John Moe somewhat sarcastically said "Oh, no: not another floating blimp telepresence avatar story!", highlighting the rather unusual nature of a story about a "blimp-based boss". The story, reported by producer Larissa Anderson starting at the 3:08 mark,…

  • Social Media and Computer Supported Cooperative Health Care

    I've become increasingly aware of – and inspired by – the ways that social media is enabling platform thinking, de-bureaucratization and a redistribution of agency in the realm of health care. Blogs, Twitter and other online forums are helping a growing number of patients – who have traditionally suffered in silence – find their voices,…

  • Civic Hacktivism at Data Camp Seattle

    The Code for America Seattle fellows organized Data Camp Seattle, a day-long unconference / hackathon in collaboration with Socrata and the City of Seattle on Saturday. The event brought together city leaders, neighborhood leaders, technologists and [other] civic-minded individuals and groups to share ideas, data and tools, and to build or improve applications to promote…

  • Innovation, Research & Reviewing: Revise & Resubmit vs. Rebut for CSCW 2012

    Research is about innovation, and yet many aspects of the research process often seem steeped in tradition. Many conference program committees and journal editorial boards – the traditional gatekeepers in research communities – are composed primarily of people with a long history of contributions and/or other well-established credentials, who typically share a collective understanding of…

  • Hadoop Day in Seattle: Hadoop, Cascading, Hive and Pig

    I attended Hadoop Day – a community event to spread the love of Hadoop and Big Data – at Amazon's Pac-Med building in Seattle a week ago. I missed the morning session of the event, but recently became better acquainted with some of the dimensions of this space via the excellent overview and analysis by…