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Hello, We're looking for reviewers for the Travis Lowdermilk book, User-Centered Design. If you'd like to post your review on Amazon, O'Reilly, Slashdot, Reddit, or your own blog, let us know and we'll send you a review copy. You can also learn more about Travis's work in this Programming podcast interviewed by Mary Treseler. Cheers, —Marsee Henon and Jon Johns Available for ReviewThe UG team is looking for reviewers for the following books & videos. Consider posting your reviews on Amazon, Slashdot, oreilly.com, and/or your blog. It's easy for you to get books for your meeting or special events—just email usergroups@oreilly.com and include the words "book request" in the subject line. Don't forget to include your deadline and shipping address. Prefer ebooks? We can send you a free ebook certificate to print out for raffles or book reviewers. New Releases
Microinteraction Book Tour detailsAuthor Dan Saffer (Microinteractions) is hitting the road for his latest book. Locations include the SF Bay Area, Portugal, Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle, NYC, Chicago, Melbourne, and Boston. Microinteractions are contained product moments that revolve around a single use case—they have one main task. Every time you change a setting, sync your data or devices, set an alarm, pick a password, log in, set a status message, or favorite or “like” something, you are engaging with a microinteraction. Find out when Dan will be near you. Drinks and Data : Hadoop Happy Hour! (May 20)The Big Data SF Bay Area Linkedin group is hosting the Hadoop Happy Hour on Monday, May 20 from 6:30pm - 9:00pm. Paco Nathan, Chief Scientist of Concurrent, Hadoop Summit speaker, and author of the upcoming O'Reilly book, Enterprise Data Workflows, will be there, along with Marsee Henon from O'Reilly Media. There will also be a raffle for a Strata Conference + Hadoop World NYC pass. Join the Linkedin Group and get your eventbrite invitation. PyData Boston Looking for Speakers (July 27-28)PyData Boston's initial call-for-speakers is open until May 31st. The event is July 27-28, and hosts both a beginners and advanced track with the format being speaker presentations (30-40 min) and hands-on tutorials (60-90 min). The event will bring together software developers, data analysts, scientists, and everyone from the Python and Data Science communities to discuss new techniques and tools for management, analytics and visualization of data. If you are interested in presenting a talk or leading a tutorial session, then please email a short description of your idea to [email protected]. Newsletters just for youIf you're looking for more focused news from O'Reilly, you could try out one of our other newsletters that might be in your specific wheelhouse. Here are some examples:
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