Happy New Year! We have lots of exciting plans for the meetup in 2017! To kick it off, please join us for this interesting presentation for our January meetup.
Talk 1
Talk Title:
Revealing Ones Personal History Through Text Messages and NLP
Talk Description:
Well learn how to leverage IPython, Pandas, and D3 to explore all text messages ever sent by any iPhone device (Android support coming soon). In specific, Ill demonstrate the power of these libraries for interactive data analysis on a dataset of over 150,000 text messages exchanged in the past 8 years.
The tools well be using are all open source and available on GitHub. If you have an iPhone you can sync it with your laptop before this talk and follow along on your own dataset. Youll walk away with steamgraphs, word trees, word clouds, heatmaps, and vocab analysis of all of your messages. Well even throw in a tool to show you how any two of your contacts compare in their verbiage and how your verbiage has developed over the years.
Bio:
Mike Dezubeis a Senior Data Scientist/Software Engineer on the Search team at Google, currently working on machine learning with a focus on text analysis. Prior to machine learning, he worked on front end development for google.com building out features such as stock charts and ski conditions. Leveraging a BS in Operations Research and Information Engineering and an MEng in System Engineering, Mike has spent his career exploring what stories datasets can tell.
Talk 2
Talk Title:
Intro to D3 (version 4)
Talk Description:
This talk is for web developers using D3 for the first time, as well as those who've used v3 but not yet version 4. We'll start by learning about D3 selections and how to use them. In the process we'll also learn about scales and axes. In the second half of the talk we'll do a quick roundup of nearly every other D3 feature (shapes, geo, layouts, behaviors, formatters, utilities) and the way features are newly organized into sub modules/packages in v4.
Bio:
Amit is cofounder of NYC-based visualization studio TWO-N, where they design and build interactive data narratives and other data exploration tools using d3 and other JavaScripts. He is also the co-organizer of this NYC D3 meetup.
