As someone who covered Hurricane Sandy, I’m forwarding this event to you from CUNY.  Please contact Tanya Domi for more information ~ Melissa.

Media contact:  Tanya Domi, tdomi@gc.cuny.edu, 212-817-7283

Graduate Center Launches Social Media Summit;

Hosts “Hackathon” Data Mining Training

WHAT:           “Reimagining Scholarly Communication for the 21^st Century,” including an #OccupyData Hackathon working with data mining and data visualization

WHY:             To work with a variety of New York City centric data sets on Hurricane Sandy by preparing, analyzing and visualizing data. The “Data Everywhere workshop will explore ways to open data, including how to use redundant data models that uses Virtual Private Servers and open source software.

WHO:             Jessie Daniels, professor, The Graduate Center, CUNY;

Suzanne Tamang, PhD candidate, The Graduate Center, CUNY

WHEN:           Friday, March 1^st and Saturday, March 2^nd practical exercise and training

(Data visualizations from previous Hackathons on display in the James Gallery)

WHERE:         The Graduate Center James Gallery

365 Fifth Avenue and 34^th Street, Manhattan

SPONSOR:     The Graduate Center, CUNY and JustPublics@365

Media:            Media must rsvp to Tanya Domi, Director of Media Relations at tdomi@gc.cuny.edu, 212-817-7283.

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Tanya L. Domi

Director, Media Relations

Communications and Marketing
The Graduate Center, CUNY
365 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10016-4309

P:   212.817.7283

M:  917.733.7838

Url:  www.gc.cuny.edu

Twitter:  @gradcenternews

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