Join us for our wrap-up event for data in sight: making the transparent visual. Come see the winning data visualizations from the weekend and hear from a panel of experts as they discuss trends, risks, and the significance of data visualization. Specifically, we will explore the question of whether data visualization tells us what to think -- and if this is good or bad.
This event is free of charge and open to anyone who is a fan of, intrigued by, or even a little curious about data visualization. Special thanks to PeopleBrowsr for being our wonderful host for the evening.
Bio
Peter Aldhous
Peter Aldhous is San Francisco bureau chief with New Scientist magazine, reporting on biology, medicine, social sciences and the environment. He's especially interested in data journalism, and has made visualizations on topics from ranging from earthquakes and their casualties to networks of citation among stem cell researchers. Peter also teaches in the Science Writing Program at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Tyler Bell
Tyler Bell is the Director of Product for Factual, a LA-based startup that is, amongst other things, creating a global coverage of the world's POI and businesses. He previously taught archaeology at the University of Oxford and, more recently and topically, was the Product Lead for Yahoo's Geo Technologies Group. He writes about semantic- and geo-technologies for O'Reilly Radar at http://radar.oreilly.com/tylerb/
Sean Gourley
Sean Gourley is Chief Technology Officer of Quid. Gourley did research into the mathematics of war for his PhD thesis at Balliol College, Oxford. His findings appeared as the featured article in Nature (December 2009) and were the subject of a popular TED talk he presented in May, 2009. These findings as related to statistical analysis, probability, and algorithm development applied to complex systems and large datasets provided the impetus for important Quid core technology. Gourley is a Rhodes Scholar with a PhD in Physics (Complexity) from the University of Oxford. His undergraduate degree in Physics is from the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.
Sep Kamvar
Consulting assistant professor of Computational and Mathematical Engineering at Stanford University. His research focuses on social computing and information management, and he is particularly interested in personal and social models for search. From 2003 to 2007, Sep was the head of personalization at Google. Sep is the author of two books and over 40 technical publications and patents in the fields of search and social computing. He is on the technical advisory boards of several companies, including Aardvark and Etsy. His artwork has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Victoria and Albert Musem in London, and the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens.
Joris Maltha
Catalogtree is a multidisciplinary design studio founded in 2001 by Daniel Gross and Joris Maltha. The studio works continuously on commissioned and self initiated design projects. The studios' guiding design tactic is FORM = BEHAVIOUR. Typography, generative graphic design and the visualisation of quantitative data are daily routines. Other recent endeavours include: D.I.Y. structured-light 3D-scanning, Bristle bot development, and the visualisation of financial tick-data.
Type of database analysis that attempts to discover useful patterns or relationships in a group of data. The analysis uses advanced statistical methods, such as cluster analysis, and sometimes employs artificial intelligence or neural network techniques. A major goal of data mining is to discover previously unknown relationships among the data, especially when the data come from different databases. Businesses can use these new relationships to develop new advertising campaigns or make predictions about how well a product will sell. Governments also use these techniques to discern illegal or embargoed activities by individuals, associations, and other governments.
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