A hopelessly incomplete list of presentations given by members of the Western Pennsylvania Regional Data Center.
- Twenty Seconds into the Future: The Western Pennsylvania Regional Data Center: Advancing Civic Data, One Record at a Time - Given for IE 1171 (Data for Social Good) at the University of Pittsburgh on October 10, 2024, as part of a collaboration to support students in working on team projects using open data. Overview of open data, the WPRDC, and its various projects.
- Opening More Data: Bringing Air Quality Forecasts to the Western Pennsylvania Regional Data Center - A lightning talk given for GIS Day at CMU on November 15, 2023.
- Twenty Seconds into the Future: The Western Pennsylvania Regional Data Center: Advancing Civic Data, One Record at a Time - Given for IE 1171 (Data for Social Good) at the University of Pittsburgh on October 24, 2023, as part of a collaboration to support students in working on team projects using open data. Overview of open data, the WPRDC, and its various projects. Includes loads of links to support three proposed student projects.
- Supercharging Open Data - Given at local Wikimania talk in Pittsburgh on August 14, 2022. Emphasis on the WPRDC's work in data literacy and tool building.
- The Western Pennsylvania Regional Data Center and Your Final Project - Given for a Pitt Data Analytics course on March 15, 2022. An updated overview of the WPRDC, its datasets, and their possible use in machine learning.
- Mapping Your Data - A brief introduction to mapping for a Pitt capstone course, given on October 21, 2019.
- How to Use Web APIs for Collecting Data and Other Stuff: A WPRDC Workshop - Given in Pitt's Hillman Library on October 18, 2019 as part of the Digital Scholarship Services seminar. The accompanying repository and Jupyter notebooks for this workshop are here.
- API Wizardy and Bitcraft: The Abridged Version - Given to Pitt's Engineering Student Council in a compressed 30-minute format on October 17, 2018.
- Publishing civic data and why it’s important to the future of cities: A historical perspective - Given at CMU's Entertainment Technology Center on October 6, 2018 as part of The Resurgent City and the Future of Urban Environments, a regional conference put on by the Association of Professional Futurists.
- API Wizardry and Bitcraft: A Crash Course in Using Web APIs - Given in Pitt's Hillman Library on September 21, 2018 as part of the Digital Scholarship Services seminar. The accompanying repository and Jupyter notebooks for this workshop are here.
- API Wizardry: A Crash Course in Using Web APIs - Given at the Code & Supply Coworking Space in Pittsburgh on June 27, 2018. The accompanying repository and Jupyter notebooks for this workshop are here.
- CKANconUS talk: Experiments in Data-Portalling: How the WPRDC works - Given on May 29, 2018 as part of the first CKANcon in the U.S., held in Oakland, California.
- Working in the Open: Collaborating on Civic Data Projects - Given on April 6, 2018 as part of the second Pittsburgh GitHub Patchworks event.
- Cognos Users Group meeting: The Western Pennsylvania Regional Data Center and Open Data - Given on February 9, 2018 as part of the Cognos Users Group quarterly meeting.
- Data Dojo kick-off talk: The Western Pennsylvania Regional Data Center and You - Given on September 11, 2017 as the opening act of the first meeting for the University of Pittsburgh's new Data Dojo club.
- Working in the Open: Collaborating on Civic Data Projects – Given on August 7, 2017 as part of the Pittsburgh GitHub Patchworks event.
- Role of Data Intermediaries in Civic Data Ecosystems - Given on May 2, 2017 at csv,conf,v3.
- The Western Pennsylvania Regional Data Center presents: A question-powered introduction to the Western Pennsylvania Regional Data Center - Given in November 2016 to the Pitt CS Club.
- Getting Open Data through the Western Pennsylvania Regional Data Center or: How I Learned to Stop Downloading CSVs and Love the API - Given in fall of 2016 as a workshop for SUDS at CMU.