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Wolfram Data Summit
September 4–5, 2014
Four Seasons Hotel
Washington, DC
Speakers
The Wolfram Data Summit begins with an 8am breakfast on Thursday, September 5. The final presentations will conclude at approximately 4:30pm on Friday, September 6. This page will be updated as additional speakers are confirmed.
Talks & Presentations
The Online Revolution: Education for Everyone
Andrew Ng
Cofounder, Co-CEO, Coursera
Geo Symptom Tracker
Anurag Jain
VP Engineering, WebMD
The Future of Data Collection Using Smart Devices
George Y. Yu
CEO, Variable, Inc.
Why Put a Library in Everybody's Pocket?
Greg Newby
Director, Project Gutenberg and the Arctic Region Supercomputing Center
The Dynamics of Correlated Novelties
Vittorio Loreto
Professor, Sapienza University of Rome
Bad Bugs: The 100K Food-Borne Pathogen Genome Project
Sufian Alkhaldi
Scientist and Food Outbreak Investigator, Center for Food and Applied Nutrition, FDA
GDELT: Real-Time Automated Global Behavior and Beliefs Mapping, Modeling, and Forecasting Using Hundreds of Millions of Events
Kalev Leetaru
Yahoo! Fellow in Residence, Georgetown University
Health Data and the Recently Released Global Burden
of Disease Study Peter Speyer University of Washington
of Disease Study Peter Speyer University of Washington
Recent Activities of the Internet Archive
Roger Macdonald
Director, Television Archive, Internet Archive
Data Mining Music
Paul Lamere
Director of Developer Platform, The Echo Nest
The Human Brain Project—An Overview
Sean Hill
Professor, Blue Brain Project/Human Brain Project
How Will Usage-Based Auto Insurance Evolve?
David Pratt
General Manager, Usage-Based Insurance, Progressive Insurance
Who Will Archive the Archives? Thoughts about the Future of Web Archiving
Michael Nelson
Associate Professor, Old Dominion University
Data Synthesis—Addressing Small Data Problems Faced by Big Data
Peter Sweeney
Founder & President, Primal
Metadata Matters
Ian White
President, Urban Mapping
Infectious Texts: Uncovering Reprinting Networks
in Nineteenth-Century Newspapers Ryan Cordell Assistant Professor, Northeastern University
David Smith Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Northeastern University
in Nineteenth-Century Newspapers Ryan Cordell Assistant Professor, Northeastern University
David Smith Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Northeastern University
DataCite—Making Datasets Citable
Jan Brase
Executive Officer, DataCite
People Hear the Title First: A Mixed-Method Study of the Cultural Place of Science Fiction across Media, Genres, and Decades
Eric Rabkin
Associate Provost for Online Education, Stony Brook University
Cultural Heritage Institutions and Big Data Collections
Leslie Johnston
Chief of Repository Development, Library of Congress
Sports Analytics v2.0: Assessing Team Strategy Using Spatiotemporal Data
Patrick Lucey
Disney Research, Pittsburgh
Transforming Legacy Data into State-of-the-Art Interactive Visualizations
Mark Elbert
Director, Office of Web Management, U.S. Energy Information Administration
Having It All Is Not Having It All at All! Problem Formulation in the Face of Overwhelming Quantities of Data
Anthony Scriffignano
Senior VP, Worldwide Data and Insight, Dun & Bradstreet
Deep Data: Mapping the Legal Genome
Adam Hahn
Cofounder & CTO, Judicata
Using Data for Social Good: Unlocking the Potential of Big Data to Change the World
Peter Panepento
Assistant Managing Editor, The Chronicle of Philanthropy
Why the Census? Big Data from the Enlightenment to Today
Eric Newburger
Assistant to the Associate Director of Communications, US Census Bureau
OpenSpending: Building a Global Database of Public Finances
Anders Pedersen
Community Coordinator, Open Knowledge Foundation
DataArray: A New Construct for Data-Centric Operations
Dillon Tracy
Senior Kernel Developer, Wolfram Research