CIC Webinars - Upcoming
The Community Indicators Consortium works to provide members with opportunities to learn and interact with each other, promoting cross-pollination of ideas and creating a more vibrant community of practice.
There are two webinar series: the Community Indicators-Performance Measure Integration series and the Indicators in Depth series.
Click here to see the archive (including PowerPoints and WMV files of the presentation itself) of previous CI-PM webinars.
Click here to see the archive of previous Indicators in Depth webinars (membership login required).
Spring 2012 webinars
The Community Commons: Visualizing Public Data to Help Create Healthy and Sustainable Communities
May 17, 2:00 pm EST
Tyler Norris, Social Entrepreneur
Chris Fulcher, Co-Director of the Center for Applied Research and Environmental Systems and the University of Missouri - Columbia
Webinar Description:
The Community Commons is an interactive mapping, networking, and learning utility for civic leaders across the sectors, and participants of place-based initiatives across the US, working to create healthy, equitable, and sustainable communities. This webinar will provide a live demonstration of how users can access over 7,000 GIS data layers and use them to construct maps and visualizations. The site also includes searchable profiles of community initiatives and peer learning forums.
About the Presenters:
Tyler Norris is a social entrepreneur, and a trusted advisor to philanthropies, health systems, governments, and collaborative partnerships working to improve the health of people and places. His three decades of service in the public, private and non-profit sectors have included work with over 350 communities and with scores of organizations in the US and around the world. Currently he serves as a Senior Advisor, Total Health for Kaiser Permanente. Tyler is Board Chair of IP3, and convenes Advancing the Movement which initiated www.communitycommons.org. He serves as community advisor to Ascension Health, Head Coach for the YMCA of the USA’s healthy community programs, and as a Senior Fellow of the Public Health Institute. He is a parent of two teens, an avid mountain biker, backcountry skier and pilot.
Christopher Fulcher, PhD co-directs the Center for Applied Research and Environmental Systems (CARES) at the University of Missouri. Chris’ systems-based approach to decision making enables public and nonprofit sector organizations to effectively address social issues using unique collaborative management systems. Chris and his team integrate geographic information systems, data visualization, community engagement tools and Internet accessibility to better serve vulnerable and underserved populations. These web-based technologies help organizations and policy makers make more informed decisions about access, equity, and allocation of resources. Chris received his B.S. in Agricultural Engineering at Texas A&M University in 1984 and his M.S. in Agricultural Economics at Texas A&M in 1985. He received his Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics at the University of Missouri in 1996. In 2005 Chris completed his National Library of Medicine Postdoctoral Fellowship in Health Informatics.
Registration:
CIC members can register for free here: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/536005474
Non-CIC members can register for $25 here: http://www.gifttool.com/registrar/ShowEventDetails?ID=1186&EID=12155
What is Weave, What Can it Do, and What is its Future?
May 31, 2:00 pm EST
Georges Grinstein, Professor of Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts Lowell and Director of the Institute for Visualization and Perception Research
Webinar description:
Weave is an interactive web-based software system that links multiple visualizations (maps, charts, graphs, etc.) and computational tools (statistics, data mining, modeling and simulation). It was designed to provide easy access to existing datasets or simple upload of local data, allowing anyone to visualize any available data anywhere. Weave was developed with support from the Open Indicators Consortium (OIC) specifically to simplify the process of presenting and visualizing data. The 15 OIC member groups wanted a state-of-the-art high-performance web-based visualization system tailored to the needs of groups that analyze and share indicator data. Weave is now available to the public, free and open-source – one less barrier to the democratization of data. In this webinar we will show several examples of Weave, show what it can do and its flexibility in developing noy just presentation visualizations but also exploratory ones. We will then show prototypes of future Weave features.
About the presenter:
Georges Grinstein is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, Director of its Institute for Visualization and Perception Research, Director of the Center for Biomolecular and Medical Informatics, and a member of the Department of Homeland Security's Visual Analytics Center of Excellence. His research interests are broad and include computer graphics, visualization, data mining, virtual environments, and user interfaces with the emphasis on the modeling, visualization, and analysis of complex information systems, most often biomedical in nature. He received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Rochester in 1978. He has over 35 years in academia with over 100 research grants, products in use nationally and internationally, several patents, numerous publications in journals and conferences, and has been the organizer or chair of national and international conferences and workshops in Cognition, in Computer Graphics, in Visualization, and in Data Mining. His current work is focused on Weave and the democratization of data.
Registration:
CIC members can register for free here: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/
Non-CIC members can register for $25 here: http://www.gifttool.com/
