Data Visualisation Event 24th May 2012
The Dublinked Data Visualisation event was held on Thursday 24th May 2012 in Fingal County Council, County Hall, Swords, County Dublin. The event explored the area of data visualisation including why visualise data, data visualisation tools and creation of data visualisations.
Speakers on the day included:
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Cyril Connolly, Lecturer, Institute of Art, Design & Technology in Dun Laoghaire; Visualising Road Accident Data Cyril Connolly is a lecturer in mathematics and statistics at the Institute of Art, Design and Technology (IADT) in Dun Laoghaire, Co Dublin. Prior to this he was employed as a statistician in the National Roads Authority (NRA), Apple Inc. and Gallagher (Belfast) Ltd. In 1997 he was appointed to the Motor Insurance Advisory Board (MIAB). MIAB completed its work in 2004 culminating in a report to Government containing 63 recommendations for the reform of the motor insurance sector.
Johnny Ryan, Chief Innovation Officer of The Irish Times; Data & deep insight in media Johnny Ryan is Chief Innovation Officer of The Irish Times. He is also an associate on the emerging digital environment in the strategy & marketing group at the Judge Business School of the University of Cambridge. His second book A History of the Internet and the Digital Future was plugged by Marc Benioff and Cory Doctorow, and examines the trends that are shaping the emerging digital environment for business, politics, and media. His writing has appeared in Fortune, BusinessWeek, Wired, The Huffington Post, and Ars Technica. His PhD at the University of Cambridge examined how terrorist memes proliferate online – part of the subject of his first book. He was an O’Reilly Foundation Scholar at Magdalene College, Cambridge. Previously he was a senior researcher at the IIEA, where his work was the most cited source in the European Commission’s official impact assessment that decided against pursuing an EU-wide system of Internet censorship.
Gabrielle Stafford, Managing Director, Twelve Horses Online Visualisation – What users want Gabrielle Stafford is the Managing Director of Twelve Horses Ltd. Twelve Horses is a full service Digital Agency. Since 2000, Twelve Horses has worked with many of the world’s largest brands to create innovative and commercially successful web and email communication programmes. Current Twelve Horses clients include Tesco, Tourism Ireland, Vhi, Deloitte, Xtra-vision, eircom and Easons. Gabrielle was also Project Leader on the ViZi project, funded by the National Digital Research Centre in association with Twelve Horses, IADT and UCD, ViZi’s goal was the creation of user centred online visualisations. VIZI is the platform on which DecisionMap runs.
Vanessa Lopez, IBM Research, Smarter Cities Technology Centre; Showcase of IBM Visualisation Tools & IBM Many Eyes Vanessa Lopez is a research engineer at the Smarter Cities Technology Centre (SCTC) at IBM's Dublin Research Laboratory in Ireland. Prior to joining IBM in 2012, she was a research associate at the Knowledge Media Institute (The Open University, UK), where she completed her PhD on novel Semantic Web technologies to support users querying and exploring heterogeneous data sources. She participated in several European projects, developed prototypes for Question Answering over Linked Data, and published her work in more than 30 conferences and journals. Before this, she worked at the European Space Agency. Her current research interests are to investigate how Linked Data technologies can be used to interpret, capture and integrate live and open data from cities.
Colman Mc Mahon, DIT School of Computing Data Visualisation Tools R & Inkscape Colman is a PhD Research Fellow at UCD's Innovation Research Unit (IRU), a division of Complex Adaptive Systems Laboratry (CASL). Colman also lectures in ‘Knowledge Management’ and ‘Visualisation at DIT School of Computing on the MSc in Computing course. Before entering full-time academia and research, Colman spent 11 years working in the film and television industry in the US (Los Angeles & San Francisco) specialising in visual effects (VFX) production.
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