Mapping a Day in the Life of Twitter from Chris McDowall on Vimeo.

An amazing video about tweets around the world. Thanks to Chris for this great job! More info here

Yes, I’m delighted to report that I’ve won an award at the International Marketing and Output Database Conference IMAODBC 2010 in Vilnius (Lithuania). All participants (and speakers) they’ve just honored me with the Bo Sundgren International Award for 2010. Thank you!

This award honors every year one of the speakers of IMAODBC Conference for the best presentation. I’ve talked about Data Sharing, as you can read here.

Thank you, guys. I’m honored!

Here’s a complete list of winners from previous years:

2001 Mr Tremblant – Petteri Baer, Statistics Finland

2002 Annapolis - David Pullinger, Office of National Statistics (UK)

2003 Bath – Michael Neutze, Federal Statistical Office Germany

2004 Oslo – Antonio Argueso, Institute of National Statistics Spain

2005 The Hague – Siu-Ming Tam, Australian Bureau of Statistics

2006 Avila – Annegrete Wulff, Statistics Denmark

2007 Blarnery – Armin Grossenbacher, Statistics Switzerland

2008 Naantaly – Alan Smith, Office of National Statistics (UK)

2009 Toronto – Edwin de Jonge, the Netherlands

2010 Vilnius – Vincenzo Patruno, ISTAT (Italy)

[Show as slideshow]

Here an interesting talk of Tim Barners-Lee at Gov2.0 Expo last May in Washington, DC

All photos about the Barcamp are available at the following link

BarCamp Sharing Data & Statistical Knowledge

I know it! All videos are in italian …. But It’s mainly to show you what’s happened during the Camp

Opening Session

G. Salinetti – Academic dean of Statistics Faculty

F. Grasso – Director of Statistics Department

M. Vichi – President of Italian Statistics Society

V. Patruno – SegnalazionIT

Get the latest Flash Player to see this player.

Plenary Session

Get the latest Flash Player to see this player.

Follow the live streaming at
http://video2.caspur.it/barcamp/streaming.html

Follow us on Twitter
http://video2.caspur.it/barcamp

Today, 20th Oct 2010 – First World Statistics Day
From 9:30 am
Local time

Last updates about the first “World Statistics Day“ and the Barcamp “Sharing Data and Statistical Knowledge” that will be held next 20 Oct in Rome at the Department of Statistics (University of Rome).

After a plenary session open to all participants where 12 experts will present the different topics of the day (20 slides, 15 seconds for each slide, 5 minutes for each  presentation), all registrated participants will move to the University Library where the main topics will be discussed around 8 tables as follow:

1. DataGov (Lorenzo Benussi)
2. Open Data, privacy e copyright (Ernesto Belisario)
3. Data Sharing (Vincenzo Patruno)
4. GIS (Sandro Furieri)
5. Software for Statistics (Emma Zavarrone)
6. Open source e Open knowledge (Flavia Marzano)
7. Data Visualization (Luca Giuliano)
8. Web 2.0 and Statistics: which opportunities? (Eugenio Brentari)

In brackets the co-ordinator of each table.