Speaking
- 03/09/2018 NICAR 2018 - Inside the sausage factory: An inside look at government data making
- 06/09/2017 LACONi Event: Civic Technology, Hackathons, and Libraries: An Introduction (Technology Section) - Deep Dive into Open Data: An introduction to Open Data and Civic Data for LACONI (Library Administrators Conference of Northern Illinois) members Slides
- 05/11/2017 NTEN Think Your Nonprofit Doesn't Need Open Data? Think Again! - Open Data Slides
- 11/04/2015 Chicago City Data Users Group: School Days: CPS Data - School Data for All: A look at Chicago Public Schools community, data, and activism. Slides
- 09/19/2015 Data Learnathon - Introduction to QGIS
- 06/06/2015 Chicago Civic Tech Leader Training - Data Portals 101
- 05/05/2015 OpenGovChicago and Local School Councils - Facilitated OpenGovChicago meetup event focusing on Chicago Public Schools Local School Councils (LSC) and technology.
- 12/03/2014 Chicago City Data Users Group: Mapping 101 - Mapping 101: the basics of GIS
- 09/20/2014 Chicago School of Data - QGIS & Open Data: An overview of Desktop GIS with a focus on using QGIS with open data.
- 08/06/2014 Chicago City Data Users Group: Meet the CIO of Cook County
- 08/02/2014 Coalition for Open Data Education [CODE] Learnathon - Introduction to QGIS Slides
- 07/24/2014 Cook County Land Bank: Cook County Data Resources Presentation
- 05/31/2014 National Day of Civic Hacking - CPS data
- 05/05/2014 ChiHackNight: Affordable Care Act Outreach App : Co-presented with Dominique Williams from LISC-Chicago on the Affordable Care Act Outreach App built in partnership with Smart Chicago Collaborative and LISC-Chicago.
- 05/14/2013 OpenGov Hack Night: Schoolcuts.org - This School Cuts Life: Our SchoolCuts group presented on our journey tracking Chicago Public Schools School Actions and building SchoolCuts.org.
- 12/17/2012 Chicago STEM Pathways Cooperative: The State of STEM in Chicago in Out-of-School Time Conference - Data and Data Systems
- 10/06/2009 Illinois GIS Association Conference Fall 2009 - Open Source GIS from a Local Government Perspective: I co-presented with Roger Diercks on our exploration of Open Source GIS tools in our work at Kankakee County GIS. Slides
- 05/18/2018 Socrata Summit 2018 - Automation: Dataset Updating and ETL Strategies: SharePoint and PowerShell for Open Data