[opendatagraz] OpenData Master's Thesis, InfoVis, partly funded

[Stefan]

fyi:

Am 24.11.14 12:39, schrieb Keith Andrews:>
> Dear Students,
>
> I have an opening for one (possibly two) Master's student(s), starting
> in the next few weeks and lasting until Summer 2015. The project is
> in cooperation with FH Joanneum and Land Steiermark and some funding
> will be available.
>
> We will build a Web-based interactive visualisation of open data from
> the province of Styria, showing how many of what kind of people live
> where in Styria. At the back-end, a Virtuoso SPARQL server (triple
> store) will be fed with the data. At the front-end, a client-side
> visualisation will be built using Javascript and appropriate infovis
> libraries.
>
>
> References:
>
> o Open Government Data Land Steiermark;
>   http://data.steiermark.at/
>
> o Virtuoso; http://virtuoso.openlinksw.com/
>
> o Keith Andrews; Visualising Open Data;
>   http://keithandrews.com/talks/2013/bcg2013/
>
>
> Prerequisites:
>
> o Studying at TU Graz for one of the Computer Science
>   Master's degrees (Informatik, Softwareentwicklung-Wirtschaft,
>   Telematik, Lehramt Informatik).
>
> o Experience with front-end web development in JavaScript.
>
>
> Nice to have:
>
> o Visited my Master's course on Information Visualisation.
>
> o Experience with Open Data, Triple Stores, SPARQL, RDF.
>
>
>
> If you are interested, please apply by email to <kandrews at iicm.edu>,
>
>   by Fri 28 Nov 2014 18:00 CET
>
>
> describing any relevant experience you have and attaching:
>
> 1. A current CV (Lebenslauf) in PDF.
>
> 2. A current Transcript of Records (Studienerfolgsnachweis) in PDF
>   (or multiple if you are studying at multiple universities).
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Keith Andrews