Today’s brown bag lunch panel on Making Data Work for You features data experts from the U.S. Department of Education, the World Bank, the New York Times, the New America Foundation, and Eric from our team. These leaders from different sectors are going to share their experience opening up data and making interesting and useful tools and visualizations with it. Here’s the run down on the speakers and what they’ll be presenting on:

• Jason Hoekstra and Alula Asfaw will present on the the Department of Education’s brand new Data.Ed.gov.

• Derek Willis will talk about three open data initiatives from the New York Times - the Times Developer Network, its API resource Open, and its blog on all of this The Scoop.

• Jeff McCoy and Neil Fantom will talk about Data.WorldBank.org, the huge open data initiative recently launched by the World Bank that gives access to more than 2,000 indicators from World Bank data sources.

• Eric will talk about our work to open up data on and map ongoing recovery projects in Haiti with InterAction in HaitiAidMap.org and chime in on the technical side of Data.WorldBank.org with the World Bank.

The talk is part of Media Future Now’s monthly brown bag lunch series. It will get going at noon and last until 1:30 pm, and it will be held at 1133 19th St., 9th floor. Come on by if you’re in Washington, DC!