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For the duration of the three day mapathon, our slack channel will be monitored by the friendly mapathon "experts." Join the channel to say hi, meet other mapathoner's, and ask us questions.
Note that the leaderboard may take time (sometimes hours) to reflect the most recent changes.
Welcome remarks from Yoh Kawano at UCLA and Andy Rutkowski at USC.
Humanitarian Mapping 101 (James Walker)
Missing Maps Program Coordinator for the American Red Cross
Hands on training throughout the day. If you miss the first training come back at any of the times listed above.
9:00 Open Street Map and Python
11:00 Mapping in Tableau
1:00 GIS with R
3:00 Intro to QGIS
Ben Welsh is the editor of the Data and Graphics Department, a team of reporters and computer programmers who collect, organize, analyze and present large amounts of information.
Welsh has contributed to projects that have won the Pulitzer Prize, the Library of Congress’ Innovation Award, a Knight News Challenge grant and numerous other prizes for investigative reporting, digital design and online journalism.
He is also a co-founder of the California Civic Data Coalition, a network of journalists and computer programmers dedicated to opening up public data, and the leader of PastPages, an open-source effort to archive digital news.
Welsh is originally from Swisher, Iowa. He welcomes tips at ben.welsh@latimes.com, on Signal at (626) 382-6910 or via Keybase.
A Conversation with Ben Welsh
The Big Reveal and Celebratory Remarks
HOT OSM Current Projects (https://tasks.hotosm.org/explore)
Getting started with Missing Maps (https://www.missingmaps.org/learn/#beginner)