Kia ora koutou, welcome to NDF2017! The livestream is available from 8.45am on Tues 21st November.
Nominations are now open for "The big thought" and "The big takeaway" conference awards
Visit http://tiny.cc/ndfnomination to make your nomination.
*Please note Chris McDowall's Gentle Introduction to Programming and Heritage Data workshop has been cancelled. This workshop, kindly hosted by one of our keynotes, replaces that workshop and differs in content.
This half-day workshop is an introduction to accessing and visualising StatisticsNZ data.
You will learn how to:
Analyse and explore the data set in R
Create a simple web application to visualise the data set
A deep introduction to d3.js
Combine d3 with react.js
These examples will focus on using R and JavaScript.
All the code will be made available to participants during and following the workshop. The focus of this workshop is to offer a deep introduction to doing visualisation in the browser and show how to manage complexity, from creative art to dashboards.
This is not a hands-on programming workshop. It will focus on showing the process and introducing libraries what you can use to visualise. There’ll be explanations and commentary along the way, but not nearly as droll as Chris McDowall’s would have been.
Who is this for?
Anyone wants to understand how visualisations are developed and how data analysis connects with the final product. New programmers looking for a bridge between "Hello, World!" tutorials and applied development.
Intermediate developers looking to pick up an understanding of d3, or React.
If content is king, then context is queen.
Knowing your audience means understanding how their context can affect their needs—
Where are they? Who are they with? Why are they here? How are they accessing the content? When are encountering the experience?
I’m relatively new to the GLAM sector, having spent most of my career with digital agencies. 'Doing digital' in a museum has highlighted the importance of understanding and designing for our users, or our visitors’, context. I'll be sharing insights of identifying and responding to the unique (and weird) context of a museum.
While I look at a lot of digitised newspapers, checking for image quality and digitisation errors its not often that I get the chance to dive in deep and actually explore the content, whats this newspaper business all about really?
Using some technical wizardry, Papers Past and a fair amount of spare time, I will dive into the digitised Kumara Times and let you what I have found out about the small town of Kumara and the local "news" business.
