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Andrew Odewahn
Andrew Odewahn is director of business development at O’Reilly, where he has conceived and developed numerous systems to improve the internal operations and profitability of the company. Prior to joining O'Reilly, he was in the Business Technology group at Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, where he led the development of a portal to allow financial analysts to organize and share data. The author of two books on Oracle database development, Andrew has an MBA from New York University. Health 2.0 / MAKE Developer Challenge happening this weekend in Boston
The Health 2.0 / MAKE Developer Challenge is happening this weekend, Feb 19th, in Boston. If you haven't signed up already, register now, because it's filling up fast.
Hacking for health: Health 2.0 Developer ChallengeIndu Subaiya on the intersection of data, developers and healthcare.
Health 2.0 is hosting code-a-thons in San Francisco, Washington, D.C., and Boston as part of their Developer Challenge. Indu Subaiya, director of the Developer Challenge, discusses the competion and the intersection of data and healthcare in the following interview.
Earthquakes are HUGE on Data.govChecking in on Data.gov roughly one year later
After launching just over a year ago with only 47 data sets, the Data.gov catalog now has 2,326 entries that have been collectively downloaded almost three-quarters of a million times. The big Data.gov winner so far? The Department of the Interior's "Worldwide M1+ Earthquakes, Past 7 Days" data set. Here's a look at the top 10 downloads.
Lies, damn lies, and visualizationsThe intersection -- and accompanying questions -- of data science and journalism.
There's nothing wrong with taking a strong position, assuming the underlying data and facts are accurate. But it's important for the audience to recognize it as advocacy, not as strict science, even when it comes wrapped in a really cool visualization.
iPhone economics and lower barriers to entryThe power of the App Store is defined by more than direct revenue.
The App Store has exposed incumbents in the mobile industry to the same sort of asymmetric competition that has reshaped the media industry over the past decade. Developers are responding in droves to the economic incentives that lower barriers to entry create, as well as the fact that the App Store has generated $1 billion in royalty payments in just a few years.
Visualizing the Senate social graph, revisitedHow the addition of animation and interactivity improved a visualization.
The addition of animation and interactivity breathes new life -- and insight -- into a Senate voting visualization. Andrew Odewahn discusses his visualization process and how revisions made a big difference.
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