A2 Datadive: Where Science Meets Service

This is the home page for my school advertising the datadive that I'm helping to host - the A2 Datadive. The event, which is based on a Data Without Borders's datadive, is being held Friday February 10th - Sunday 12th. I still can't believe that the "small idea" I had to bring a datadive to UMich is actually happening...

I mean, we still have a lot of work left to put it all together -- but I'm just totally amazed at how all it took was an idea ... I found so many generous people at SI who were willing to help me make it a reality.

A thoroughly geeky evening

After a seemingly interminable first week of classes we thought we'd take Saturday off to geek out!

Here's Allen playing with his Christmas present, an Electronic Drum Machine Shirt from ThinkGeek. He was having such a blast with it because it comes with a little mini amp that goes to 11, allows you to loop tracks, and has an output so you can record the beats you've made with a shirt! Dissertation productivity might have seriously gone down yesterday, but fun definitely went up!

We also invited a group of friends over to watch Star Wars Uncut, which is a remaking of of the original... just by fans ... and in 15 second increments. Sadly the video feed didn't work so we weren't able to see it to the end ... but no matter we had plenty of bad movies on hand (ahem, DareDevil) to make fun of and the interent provided a ridiculous amount of funny videos to entertain us. Some of my favorites included Guy on a Buffalo and Dara O'Brian on videogames... in my defense though, I was pretty tired! ;)