DataGotham Conference Analyzes NYC

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Published on Thursday, 12 September 2013 13:49

Written by John Matthews

Celebrating it's second year, the DataGotham conference returns to New York City at the New York Academy of Medicine (1216 5th Ave) on September 12th to 13th, 2013. Data Gotham is the annual celebration of all things to do with big data by content creators and the government of New York City. With the data driven financial industry and increasingly data driven media industry both located in NYC, the city has become a focal point for the use of data and analytics, and at the same timeentrepreneurial data and analytics startups are constantly being formed. It's not just industry and commerce that are data and analytics driven, but government and public services as well.

Data Gotham 2013 celebrates the diverse use of data and analytics in public and private spheres by assembling speakers from the City of New York,  startups, and more established NYC based businesses and media such as Foursquare, Birchbox, The New Yorker, Bit.ly, Gilt, Goldman Sachs.

The 2012 conference had both great panel discussions as well as hands on tutorials with data analytics, so this year's Data Gotham is a must attend for anyone who wants to gain business insights through the use of data and analytics, see how it is done, learn what skills are needed, and get the gear needed to get the job done.

To learn more, go to: http://www.datagotham.com

Data Gotham 2013
September 12th - 13th, 2013

New York Academy of Medicine
1216 5th Ave
New York, NY 10029

Network at Mediabistro's Ad Week Party!

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Published on Wednesday, 11 September 2013 15:36

Written by Renzo Adler

For over a decade, Mediabistro has helped to bring creative professionals, content professionals, and media innovators together and find jobs. On September 24, 2013 at SideBAR (118 E. 15th Street, NYC), Mediabistro will be holding its Agencyspy Ad Week Party. Mediabistro set up the event great chance for media professionals, to celebrate Ad Week, and also “because it’s just fun!” The event is hosted by Mediabistro's AgencySpy editor, Kiran Aditham. The event is RSVP only, so be sure to register online for your chance to wine, dine, and network.

To learn more, go to: http://www.mediabistro.com/events/view_event.asp?id=21299

Mediabistro's AgencySpy Ad Week Party
September 24, 2013
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM

SideBAR
118 E. 15th Street
(On Irving Pl)
New York, NY 10003

NY Comic Con: A Look Back & Forward

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Published on Thursday, 05 September 2013 15:53

Written by Renzo Adler

The 2012 New York Comic Con was one of the most content packed conventions I have ever been to... Maybe a little too packed. The NY Comic Con has never stopped growing since its humble premiere in 2006, back when it had to share the Javits Center with the NY Times Travel Show, but since then it had grown exponentially.

One of the complaints often voiced about these larger conventions is that they take the comics out of comic conventions, and become nothing more than one big coming attraction for Hollywood’s latest adaptations of beloved four-color heroes. While it’s true, NYCC ’12 had a considerable movie presence from Legendary Pictures and Marvel, their artist alley was more jam packed this year than I had ever seen it before. The artist alley alone was almost as big as a small convention, and featured a great range of talent, including Blacksad artist Juanjo Guarnido, writer of the webcomic Fox Sister, Christina Strain, and the duo behind Image’s revamped Glory, Joe Keatinge and Ross Campbell, among many, many others.

To promote their new CGI Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon, Nickelodeon converted the hallways connecting areas of the convention center into a quasi-theme-park-attraction, replete with fake streets, fog machines, and lights, so you can ooh-and-ah about being on the same street as the Turtles, then bump into people because you’re not watching where you’re going.

At this point, the movie Pacific Rim was a mere twinkle in Legendary Picture’s eyes, and was only modestly hinted at by one of the costumes put on display and Guillermo Del Toro could only give out precious few details at his panel.  Final Fantasy artist Yoshitaka Amano gave a contemplative panel discussion and reflected on the nature of beauty. It struck a chord with me that when asked why he often draws his characters with androgynous features, he stated that he simply draws what he finds beautiful “…like with mountains, or the sky or anything else that is beautiful, there is not gender to it.” Manga author Moyoco Anno was on hand to promote the US premiere of her manga Sakuran from Vertical Inc.

One of the more prickly issues with the 2012 NYCC had to do with just how popular the convention was. Despite using nearly every crevice of the Javits Center, there were still so many guests and so many chokepoints that often times visitors were moving at a literal crawl as thousands of people trying to get from one end of the center to the other by a single hallway. Hopefully for the 2013 NYCC they will have devised a way to part large swaths of con-goers, like Moses in a sweatier and smellier Red Sea.

But what’s past is past, and a few hiccups with overcrowding aside, NYCC ’12 was still a great year, and the 2013 edition hopes to continue this trend. While in the past some more traditionalist con-goers protested the presence of authors like E.L. James and Stephanie Meyer at San Diego Comic Con as the pop-world encroaching on comic territory, I believe that anyone who grew up in the 90’s would be excited to hear that R.L. Stein, acclaimed author of the Goosebumps series, will be in attendance. Author of the Tek Wars novels (and I think he might have acted in something on TV or whatever), William Shatner will be making his first NYCC appearance this year. True Blood actresses, Kristin Bauer and Rutina Wesley will be present for fans to grieve with over the end of the series. Much to the delight of Anglophiles and Whovians, Torchwood's John Barrowman will be on hand, and the one and only Sylvester Stallone will be at the convention to delight folks with stories of muscles flexed and movies made in bygone eras.

NYCC ’12 had a great mix of guests from comics, animation, and film, and it looks like ’13 is aiming to bring the same great variety. Excelsior, and good NYCC to you all.

To learn more, go to: http://www.newyorkcomiccon.com

The 2013 New York Comic Con
October 10 – 13, 2013

The Javits Center
655 W 34th St
New York, NY 10001