Actually, November 9th is my birthday – but it’s also the first meeting of the DataSTORIES meetup – taking place this time at Havana Central on 113th Street and Broadway, NYC.    If anyone who reads my blog is in NYC at that time, please join us.

The original idea was partly mine – to host an event with live data where a company will open it self up to a peer review in real time – and a panel and/or the audience will suggest solutions and insights – purely from the data presented.   DataSTORIES first test, as a concept, was at Google’s own location in Manhattan last May – and it was suggested at the time – to make this a group of it’s own.

So we have.   Join us – or if you can’t be in NYC - join the meetup group, anyway - as we’ll post ideas and results from the meetings we hold.  Also, if you want to speak at one of the future meetings of DataSTORIES – and/or, voleenteer to have your data analyzed in real time (for the story it tells) – sign up for the group and contact us via the Meetup Page.