Events matching tag "Big Data"
Friday, March 7
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Beginner
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Amadeus Stevenson, Barry Whyte, Elizabeth Lukas, John Ridpath
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Intermediate
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Dave Knox, Heidi Browning, Scott Lange, Sefi Grossman
Saturday, March 8
Believe it or not, Pinterest is a whole lot more than just DIY and mason jars. There is some big technology being built behind a fast moving, and majorly scaling service. Pinterest grew to billions of page views per mon…
Advanced
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Marty Weiner, Yash Nelapati
Big Data is a game changer for storytelling. Increased pressure to find meaning in mounds of data—in real-time and at scale—has given rise to technology that analyzes and turns individual data points into bite-sized pros…
Intermediate
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Eric Shoup, Francois Ajenstat
“As a use of sensing and big data, cutting needless energy waste isn’t as sexy as, say, using a snippet of your DNA to create a genetically linked familiar that will stay with you your entire life...But it’s a whole lot …
Advanced
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Brittany Heyd, Craig Isakow, Grant Allen, Roderick Morris
One of the cool things about SXSW is that you can spend all week in Austin without spending a dime. Everywhere you look, someone or something is handing out free breakfast tacos, beer, t-shirts, even piggyback rides. Jus…
Intermediate
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David Tishgart
The hype about Big Data is all around us and it seems the data is busy at work solving the world's problems. Big Data is being used to stop crimes, find cures to cancer and organizations like Maplight.org are using data …
Intermediate
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Elissa Fink
Sunday, March 9
Our lives are mobile-everything. Our stuff is increasingly sensor-laden. And the services that give us access to our data, people, and things are, by definition, collecting massive volumes of data about us. It's impossib…
Intermediate
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Fatemeh Khatibloo
When our daughter was born she lost too much of her birth weight too quickly. So we started keeping a log of everything she consumed and, inevitably, expelled. It started with a simple spreadsheet to track the exact amou…
Intermediate
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Amy Webb
Best known for its broadcast graphics like the bright yellow 1st and 10 line for football and strike-zone box in baseball, Sportvision has been instrumental in changing the ways fans watch sports while creating the next …
Intermediate
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Hank Adams
Humans’ increased focus on personal fitness has been met with consumer electronics and apparel companies producing wearable devices that track every step, sit-up, sleep pattern and more. The era of tracking your personal…
Intermediate
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Rafael Mena
Monday, March 10
Improving our world and quality of life—from increasing energy and food production to developing new drugs and treatments to managing environmental crises—requires advances in science across numerous, connected disciplin…
Beginner
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Arfon Smith, Mark Hahnel, Maytal Dahan, Nancy Wilkins-Diehr
An app on your phone knows you’re getting married before you do. Your friends’ tweets can help data scientists predict your location with astounding accuracy, even if you don’t use Twitter. Soon, we’ll be able to know h…
Intermediate
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Patrick Tucker
“In 2008, for the first time, half the world's population is living in towns and cities. By 2030, the urban population will reach 5 billion – 60% of the world's population” (UN Population Division.) Nearly all global pop…
Advanced
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Blake Farenthold, Evan Burfield, Jon Zeitler, Lauren Flanagan
It’s a fine line that marketers can cross in the new era of big data analytics. You can go from “cool” to “creepy” in a blink of an eye if you don’t truly know who you are targeting. And, if they don’t know they are bein…
Intermediate
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Graeme Noseworthy
Philanthropy has always been a senior’s game – old money, traditional ideas, worn out game plans. Today, there is a new generation of technophilanthropists joining the scene and shaking the world of nonprofits to its cor…
Intermediate
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Tamarah Black
There’s a ton of data out there, but what does data really mean? People don’t consume data. We consume knowledge. But how do we get from data to knowledge? How do we navigate a galaxy-wide playing field of information an…
Intermediate
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Stan Humphries
The privacy debate is far from over. Instead of skirting the issue or declaring the death of privacy, let's instead wisen up to the realities of a mobile world and debate balance -- consumers want personalization, but do…
Beginner
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Damien Patton
Customers increasingly expect retailers to understand their preferences so they can deliver personalized service. That’s why people love to shop on Amazon; Amazon uses insights about each customer to provide a seamless, …
Intermediate
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Marc Freed-Finnegan
Humans are both generous and selfish. Social Networks prime our collaborative selves. Google has taught us to search, Facebook to make friends, Twitter to be open and smartphones to be always connected. Enterprises and …
Intermediate
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Andrew Grill, Jodee Rich, Rand Waltzman
Tuesday, March 11
At its heart, presenting personalized data and experiences for users is simple. But transferring, delivering and serving this data at high scale can become quite challenging. In this session, we will speak about the scal…
Advanced
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Rohan Singh, Sriram Malladi
Working with the immense trove of weather data amassed by The Weather Channel, Vikram Somaya has found some strange and unusual connections between the weather and consumer behavior. In this presentation, hear some of th…
Intermediate
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Vikram Somaya
Cities, private companies, and public-private partnerships are taking control of their bandwidth destinies by working to ensure people and businesses have access to world-leading Internet connections. This infrastructure…
Intermediate
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Amie Stepanovich, Ellen Satterwhite, Heather Gold, Luther Lowe
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