Woke to the happy sight of Snow.. i didn’t care if it had freezing rain and sleet mixed in.. at least it covered the ground. it finally looks like Vermont !
Had a busy day .. First job was to set up the home weather station we got. I’m doing this because IBM just announced it was buying The Weather Channel.. One thing we’re getting with TWC is The WeastherUnderground.. WU does micro local weather forecasts with the help of over 100,000 home weather stations like the one I have now. It’s greta to be able to participate.. and use the data from the station. Our Station can be found at
http://www.wunderground.com/personal-weather-station/dashboard?ID=KVTRICHM14
you can see our weather camera at
http://www.wunderground.com/webcams/johncohn/3/show.html
here’s a shot from it this morning
Later in the day we went and visited our friends Jeremy and Dani and 7 month old Ike who are visiting form Chicago.. it was so great seeing them. and Jeremy’s mom and sister. What a happy baby !!!
from there we headed down town to the open ceremony for ‘Lake Brite’ the very cool light sculpture at the Leahy Echo Center. The work was funded by a very generous gift from Google. They are helping us visualize data from the lake in a very cool and engaging way.. Huge thanks to Goggle, Matt Dune and Justin Caroni for supporting this work.
The project was led by our friend Rachel from the Generator. She did such an amazing job pulling to gather the funders, advisors, ECHO folks makers artists and software folks. It was so exciting to see it all come together
Major Kudos to Matt and Erik for the physical build.
The structure has 7500 addressable light up balls.. The whole thing weights about 3000 pounds and is built so beautifully..
Alex and crew led most of the software .. They’ve done a great job of bringing the piece to life. They’re now worrying to make the interfaces open to other data scientists so they can visualize their data on the piece.
Phelan introduced the small ceremony
then Justin spoke on behalf of Google
Then Nancy mathews the Dean of the UVM Rubinstein School spoke.
Then Sneator Leahey and hi wife Marcella spoke
I was so proud of Echo and the community. It was especially great to see so many folks form The Generator involved in making this possible.
Once again.. huge shout out to the team that built this.. Rachel, Matt, Erik, Alex, etc
and huge thanks to Google for their support !
Stay tuned.. we’ll be spreading the word on how you too can use Lake Brite to show your data to the world !
nite all, nite sam
-me