Computers in Libraries Day 2 - Library Engagement through Open Data

This presentation, by Oleg Kremer and Dan Lipcan from the Metropolitan Museum of Art library was a great overview of the kinds of things you can do with a good dataset and some free tools from Google and IBM as well as an open source package developed by the Indianapolis Museum of Art specifically for visualizing museum data (which I think could be adapted for other nonprofits). It was great to see some of the great ways trends could be made to pop out by using these tools and I look forward to seeing what I might be able to do with them with some library data. Sometimes the same old Excel charts get a little old.