Call for Collaborators: Density Happens at Visualizar08, Medialab-Prado, Madrid
Medialab-Prado has issued a call for collaborators in the projects selected for Visualizar08: Database Cities, directed by José Luis de Vicente. The following is loosely quoted from the call:
The role of the collaborator is crucial in the Medialab-Prado workshops’ statement and development process, as the workshops are constituted as a horizontal collaborative work environment, knowledge interchange and theoretical-practical training among teachers, authors and collaborators.
You are invited to discuss the projects in the forums, and of course I will be glad to comment on Density Happens with anyone interested in collaborating. Preferred collaborators would fit one of the two following profiles:
Collaborator profile 1:
- has good grasp of maths
- is programming language agnostic
- feels at ease with declarative, functional and constraint-based programming styles, even in imperative languages
- is someone who will enjoy reading, implementing and extending these papers about cartograms.
Collaborator profile 2:
- has some experience with website scraping and data-munging, and/or…
- has some knowledge of Geographical Information Systems, especially map formats
- would enjoy extracting comma-separated files from this series of webpages.
- would enjoy merging the above into data extracted from this excess of Excel spreasheets.
Any question you have, please ask away, either here or at the Medialab-Prado Forum.
And please bear with me if I am still a bit vague: I am reading the relevant papers as fast as I can download them.
Tags: call for collaborators, visualizar