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First meeting on Sunday, 21

Sample data set is quite clean, it will likely play well with other data from other formats.

e.g. Global database for events - news mined from news sources, tracks political unreast, riots in cities (google GDELT)

A Russian PhD did data viz of riots in Russia, how they moved and things

info on how industry works within countries, data is pre-processed

Justin -  a materials scientist, codes in R, software curriculum development, works in Silicon Valley

Kerry - journalist, interested in data visualization, based in Vancouver

Objective is to learn how to tinker with, refine and tell a story with data

Need to look for trends and decide what stories there are

Looking at the per capita carbon dioxide emissions spreadsheet

Suggested topic: To identify countries that decreased the most based on per capita, explore it, and determine why, cultural shift, new product? 

Justin sent the link to the other participants and asked them to add their names and a bio line

Kerry sent a link to a new Doodle poll to try to set the next meeting