[Sorvi-admin] presentation at Share conference?

[Leo Lahti]

Dear Jana, thanks for your response.

I am visiting Belgrade previously that week in any case, so it would great
to extend the stay and give a presentation.

I would prefer 26.4. but any day during the conference is ok.

kind regards
Leo Lahti,
Finland/Netherlands

On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 4:47 PM, Jana Katić
<jana.katic at shareconference.net>wrote:

> Dear Leo,
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> Sorry for the delay with the conference info.
> we would love if you still wanna come to Belgrade, and give the
> presentation on Share conference
> Due to 'Share' duration ( 26 - 28th April ), most of participants
> are expected to be in Belgrade from 25 to 29th April.
> you can tell us, if you prefer any date?
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> If you have any further questions, do not hesitate to contact me!
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> best
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> Jana
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> On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Leo Lahti <leo.lahti at iki.fi> wrote:
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>> Dear Share organizers,
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>> I saw your call for lectures/presentations at
>> http://www.shareconference.net/en/participate
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>> We have been recently developing an open source algorithmic toolkit to
>> facilitate fluent programmatic access to open government data sets,
>> including retrieval, preprocessing, analysis, visualization and other
>> relevant features. The toolkit is based on R statistical programming
>> language and it allows efficient integration of data sets and analysis
>> tools from various sources. The project is aimed to enhance the
>> government openness and transparency and it was awarded the first
>> prize in the national Apps4Finland competition in Finland November,
>> 2011 (http://apps4finland.fi/fi/en). The main developers include three
>> young computational scientist from Finland. The project website is
>> currently only in Finnish but are planning to include an English
>> summary in the close future: http://sorvi.r-forge.r-project.org/
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>> Our project is focused on open government data in Finland, but we
>> would be willing to share our experiences with others working on
>> related topics. We also hope that the project would provide
>> inspiration for launching similar initiatives in other countries.
>> Therefore, we would be willing to give a presentation of the project
>> at Share conference if there is a chance. I attach below the
>> information you have asked for lecture/presentation proposals.
>>
>> Thanks for arranging the inspiring and topical event - we will be
>> looking forward to hearing from You.
>>
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>> Title: soRvi - Algorithmic toolkit for open government data in Finland
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>> Abstract: Increasing amounts of data regarding socio-economical
>> factors and democratic decision-making are available in
>> machine-readable format in the public domain. However, the lack of
>> programmatic tools for accessing and analyzing such data poses a
>> significant limitation to utilizing the full potential of these
>> information sources. Moreover, customization of the tools for the
>> local needs within each country or region is essential. The recently
>> introduced toolkit (soRvi: http://sorvi.r-forge.r-project.org/)
>> provides an example of such project in Finland. The project provides
>> open source tools to support fluent programmatic access to open
>> government data in Finland, including tools for retrieval,
>> preprocessing, analysis, visualization, and other relevant tasks. The
>> toolkit is based on R statistical programming language and it allows
>> efficient integration of data sets and professional computational
>> tools from versatile sources. The project is aimed to enhance the
>> government openness and transparency and it was awarded the first
>> prize in the national Apps4Finland competition in Finland November,
>> 2011 (http://apps4finland.fi/fi/en). We hope that sharing our
>> experiences could provide inspiration for launching similar
>> initiatives in other countries, and help to setup a cross-border
>> network of similar, community-driven projects.
>>
>> Short biography: The volunteer-driven project is aimed to enhance the
>> government openness and transparency and it was awarded the first
>> prize in the national Apps4Finland competition in Finland November,
>> 2011. The main developers include three young computational scientist
>> from Finland: Leo Lahti (D.Sc.), Juuso Parkkinen (M.Sc.Tech), and
>> Joona Lehtomäki (M.Sc.), with backgrounds in computational biology,
>> social networks models, and ecological analysis. The lecturer at Share
>> conference, Leo Lahti (http://www.iki.fi/Leo.Lahti) has received a
>> doctoral degree in bioinformatics from the Dpt. Information and
>> Computer Science, Aalto University, Finland, and B.Sc. in practical
>> philosophy at the Faculty of Political Science, University of
>> Helsinki, Finland, and is currently a postdoctoral researcher in
>> Wageningen University, Netherlands.
>>
>> kind regards,
>> Leo Lahti,
>> http://www.iki.fi/Leo.Lahti/Contact
>>
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