Times Open is “a series of events surveying the current landscape on a variety of topics, including Geolocation, Open Government, the Real-Time Web and Big Data. We’ll talk with people actively working in each field, look at what’s coming up next, and drink some beer with our fellow software developers, technologists and code hackers.”
The latest one covered “Big Data.” It was held on Thursday, Nov. 18 from 6:30 p.m.–10:00 p.m.
The next one is “Hack Day” to be held Saturday, Dec. 4 10:00 a.m.–Midnight
I would have loved to have been there, but regrettably was 3,000 miles away. In my attempt to get the most info I could, using the search API, I sucked down 151 Tweets containing the following terms:
timesopen
todata
to2.0
NYTimes big data
You can download all the tweets as a CSV file here.
Within those tweets these were the most prominent links referenced:
Digital Keys for Unlocking the Humanities’ Riches
The Shrinking Data Storage Sector
GigaOm: Beyond Hadoop: Next-Generation Big Data Architectures
Drew Conway: Where People Share Links About NYC
Lev Manovich: new york times: the next big idea in humanities is data
These were the terms most used:
The most prominent Tweeters (In order of frequency):
StacyCowley
donohoe
timesopen
cvvalencia
gettheFAQs
cmenscher
halwebguy
smyles
MacDivaONA
NickHardeman
mattlemay
siculars
ChrisChobez
derekg
detournement
epiraces
informor
mattupstate
robsays
siberiancharm
Many of these have been added to our “Social Data Gurus” list.
Some pics:
