Maps from Past Conferences
Conference Maps:
43 tutor/Mentor Leadership and Networking Conferences were held in Chicago between May 1994 and May 2015.
From 1994 to May 2011 these were organized by the Tutor/Mentor Connection (T/MC), part of a two-part non-profit established in 1993. From November 2011 through 2015 the conferences were organized by the Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC which was established in 2011 after the original organization ceased its support of the T/MC strategy.
What Other Organization in Chicago has brought so many people together, for so many years? Limited resources have kept conference participation under 80 from 2013 to 2015. Yet as many as 350 have attended these conferences
in past years.
View this analysis of conference participation, done by students participating in Indiana University information visualization 2015 IVMOOC.
In 2025 a new group of IVMOOC students from Indiana University created an open source tool that anyone could use to collect information about event attendees, then easily upload that to create visualizations using KUMU, Gephi or GIS mapping tools. Below is an example of what event organizers can create using this tool. It's a visualization on KUMU that shows participation in every Tutor/Mentor conference from 1994 through 2014. On the right side you can choose what conference (or conferences) you want to look at. On the right is a view showing 1994, 2000 and 2010 participation. The orange nodes are conference dates and the green nodes are organizations that participated. The larger size of the node show participation in more of the conferences. Imagine if you had historical data like this! Read the 2025 IVMOOC team report. View the conference visualization on Kumu.
T/MI seeks research students who will continue this analysis or help event organizers throughout the world learn to use this new tool. Our goal is to influence how others map and analyze participation in their own conferences and events, while also seeking partners, or sponsors, to re-build this effort and continue the conferences for another 20 years?
See also, Social Network Analysis Maps of 2008 and 2009 conferences. This was our first effort at using network analysis tools to map participation in past Tutor/Mentor Leadership and Networking Conferences.
Below are more examples of how event participation can be mapped.
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Map of June 2013 Tutor/Mentor Conference - Click here
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November 1998 Tutor/Mentor Leadership and Networking Conference Participation Map Click here to open map. Zoom in to see organizations in Chicago. Zoom out to see out of state participants.  Here is a list of other maps that are available |
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Learn More about Tutor/Mentor Connection Uses of maps This map is one of many created since 1994. Visit http://www.tutormentorexchange.net/mapping-the-programs and learn more how maps can be used to illustrate the areas of high poverty and poorly performing schools in Chicago where volunteer based tutoring and/or mentoring programs are needed. Learn about the interactive Tutor/Mentor Program Locator created in 2004 by a student from India and rebuilt in 2008 by a team from India. By comparing this map to the conference participation map we can see View more maps at http://mappingforjustice.blogspot.com |
