Hacks/Hackers London: Monthly Meetup

7.00pm  

Building popular data visualisations - what I've learned

Anna Powell-Smith, developer of What Size Am I?

Anna is a web developer working mainly in Python and JavaScript. Her data visualisation of women's dress sizes, What Size Am I?, built in her spare time, was featured in the Guardian, Daily Mail, Economist, Wall Street Journal and on BBC television. A second... [read more]

7.00pm  

Building popular data visualisations - what I've learned

Anna Powell-Smith, developer of What Size Am I?

Anna is a web developer working mainly in Python and JavaScript. Her data visualisation of women's dress sizes, What Size Am I?, built in her spare time, was featured in the Guardian, Daily Mail, Economist, Wall Street Journal and on BBC television. A second visualisation on baby name trends in the UK was picked up by the Telegraph, Sun and Today programme.

In this talk she shares her top 10 tips for building popular data visualisations, and lessons learned from the experience.

 

**PITCH SESSION**

(Two-minute pitches on any topic that might be of interest to the Hacks/Hackers community. Apply to take a pitch slot by emailing joanna.geary@guardian.co.uk)

PITCH 1: Makoto Inoue on the Olympics-themed Londinium MMXII Hackathon

PITCH 2: AVAILABLE

 

8.00pm

Taking on the unseen snoopers

Duncan Campbell

This month, the government launched an obscurely worded Communications Data Bill intended to place every kind of internet communication and web access under official scrutiny.

Investigative journalist Duncan Campbell, has spent nearly 40 years reporting on secret national and global structures of electronic surveillance.

In 1976, he published the first article describing the now well-known signals intelligence activities carried out by GCHQ Cheltenham.  In consequence, two American journalists were deported. He and another journalist were arrested. In 1978, he faced trial at the Old Bailey and up to 30 years imprisonment for carrying out the type of research into government activity that everyone now does on the net, thousands of times every day.

In 1987, the BBC and his home and magazine offices were raided after he made a BBC2 programme revealing government plans to launch Britain’s first ever intelligence satellite. The BBC Director General was sacked. In 1988, he revealed the existence of the Echelon network of commercial satellite monitoring stations, and the “Dictionary” system for storing and analysing intercepted private messages.

In 2000, he prepared a well-known series of reports on Echelon for the European Parliament.

Since 2000, Duncan has also worked as an accredited computer forensic expert, and has audited and examined thousands of call records, call recordings and location data files used in criminal cases, as well as dozens of computers seized from terrorism suspects.

He is a member of the Foundation for Information Policy Research Advisory Council, teaches media studies at Bournemouth University, and is currently preparing reports on offshore accounts and on the role of electronic surveillance in the Syrian conflict.

He will lead a discussion on how hacks and hackers can educate an economically battered electorate in the issues of privacy and security that are claimed to underlie the government’s plan to open the Internet to their unseen snoopers.

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