Events matching tag "data"
Friday, March 7
ATTENTION: You must signup in advance to attend this workshop. You will need to have a valid SXSW badge, and an activated SXsocial account. To reserve your seat, please go here: https://sup.sxsw.com/schedule/IAP25173 Wh…
Advanced
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Ian Varley
Video game development is a fast-paced and competitive industry. Having real-time access to the right data lets you turn on a dime and capture market trends you might otherwise miss. This session discusses how PlayStatio…
Intermediate
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Tyler Gaede, Zane Mumford
One of the foremost issues today in connected technologies is privacy, and more specifically, who controls personal data – the individual who uses the technology, the company that produced the technology or the governmen…
Intermediate
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Anna Laitin, Catherine McCullough, Cora Han, Harold Ford Jr
Social media analytics can help you understand the active members of your social media audience, but what about the people who aren't posting? How do you fill in the gaps in your analytics with insight into your customer…
Beginner
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Alexandra Samuel, Beth Kanter, Colby Flint, Jeremiah Owyang
In the next era of computing, the coming “plague” will bring an elaborate network of devices, sensors and radios that will talk with each other, and collect, store and analyze overwhelming amounts of data. It will delive…
Intermediate
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Tony Salvador
Saturday, March 8
ATTENTION: You must signup in advance to attend this workshop. You will need to have a valid SXSW badge, and an activated SXsocial account. To reserve your seat, please go here: https://sup.sxsw.com/schedule/IAP26748 A …
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Brandi Grissom, John Burnett, Lise Olsen
From activity trackers to Google Glass, wearables are all the rage. But who should get access to the data? Unfortunately, just because you wear a device doesn't mean that you get access to your data. As a data scientist,…
Intermediate
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John Wilbanks, Rachel Kalmar
If you want to know how people feel about something, just give them a questionnaire, right? Nope. This panel is about tapping into people's thoughts, feelings, and opinions more directly, in real time. Our thoughts an…
Intermediate
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Gary Kazantsev, Martin Salo, Philip Resnik, Rana el Kaliouby
The US and UK governments have put open data at the heart of current health reforms. In both countries, transparency has become a focal point for improvements in clinical quality and the cost effectiveness of services. T…
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Beverley Bryant, Gregory Downing
Mentor Sessions enable less-established new media professionals to gain seven minutes of direct one-on-one career-related council from a more established / more experienced new media professional. Please visit this URL t…
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Dave Fowler
There is growing distrust over Internet data. Consumers fear how their information is collected and used, and companies struggle to maintain control over their data when transacting with third parties. This FUD is amplif…
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Joseph Galarneau
ESPN launched Grantland based on the writings and vision of Bill Simmons. The company recently hired Nate Silver and acquired his site, FiveThirtyEight. As a company known for sports, Simmons and Silver will discuss the…
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Bill Simmons, Nate Silver
As data become more readily available, we are lulled into believing “the numbers don’t lie.” However, the human data collection methods and process, the various motives of the people involved, the political or social sys…
Beginner
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Grace Rodriguez, Jake Porway, Jonathan Schwabish, Kim Rees
Mentor Sessions enable less-established new media professionals to gain seven minutes of direct one-on-one career-related council from a more established / more experienced new media professional. Please visit this URL t…
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Pamela Pavliscak
With car2go..we are using visualization mapping software based on daily trip and member data to give us insight on how a city moves. With over 600,000 members worldwide using our service, it is very important to show c…
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Paul DeLong
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
Why do we produce charts, infographics, reports or, indeed, any kind of media? We do it to change the world and to influence people. Are you succeeding in doing that in your role? We've chosen the 5 most influential vis…
Beginner
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Andy Cotgreave
Sunday, March 9
The history of computing boils down to this: someone enters data; a computer spews out data. We enter data by keyboard, or mouse, or touch screen, or even facial gestures, and a computer responds. But the world is about …
Intermediate
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Gadi Shamia, Mike Abbott, Monica Rogati, Quentin Hardy
In the nonprofit world, resources can be scarce. But there’s never a shortage of data. Nonprofits track finances, services, outcomes and external data about their issue areas. Within all that data are stories waiting to …
Intermediate
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Becca Aaronson, Javier De La Torre, Megan Kilgore
ATTENTION: You must signup in advance to attend this workshop. You will need to have a valid SXSW badge, and an activated SXsocial account. To reserve your seat, please go here: https://sup.sxsw.com/schedule/IAP22156 In…
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Andrew Grenville, Tyler Douglas
Monday, March 10
Nearly everything we do is being mediated by technology, and that has turned us all into "walking data generators" - each individually throwing off exponentially more data than we were a decade ago. How can business owne…
Beginner
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Rajat Paharia
Our online reputation is becoming more precious, and our identity more complex, as everything that is physical becomes digital, hence liquified. When each atom of our life is being tracked digitally, we are transformed i…
Intermediate
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Matteo Cassese
Research shows that engaging citizens – collaborating with them on common interest topics, issues and problems – builds the strongest communities, fortified against the larger challenges of the country. As a result, many…
Intermediate
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Nick Bowden
I’ve been working on product design for big corporations, for small companies and for my own startups. Each time I come to a point where I need to know more about how the users behave. Why are they not using a new featur…
Intermediate
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Tue Andersen
Tuesday, March 11
The Texas Tribune deals with government data ranging from thousands to millions of rows and every data set has one thing in common: there's next to nothing in common. This talk shows you the process for consuming govern…
Beginner
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Travis Swicegood
Our identity is increasingly defined by digital data, only a fraction of which is within our control. Welcome to the social age, where we're getting intimate about our habits, health, wealth and behaviors. Businesses are…
Intermediate
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Christopher Sundermeier, Jeffrey Liu, Phyllis Newhouse, Todd Davis
How does a photo of an onion in Delhi translate into countrywide price inflation? Conversely, how can a video from 500 miles above the Earth’s surface shed light on a humanitarian crisis unfolding in West Africa? From th…
Intermediate
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Ching-Yu Hu, David Soloff, Harper Levine
We will tell the compelling story of how data science created not only a multi-million dollar business, but also one of the greatest single sources of love on earth. OkCupid is responsible for 40,000 first dates every si…
Advanced
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Christian Rudder, Sam Yagan
In the age of the open API, it’s easy to take your own data for granted. So when three of the major airlines decided to cut off third party access to reward point data, it was a tough pill to swallow for travelers. They …
Intermediate
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Darren Bauer Kahan
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