News from the EdgeBerkeley iSchool DataEdge 2013
Sian MeikleUniversity of Toronto Libraries
Data scientists
• Collect big data
• Wrangle big data
• Tell stories using big data
Data precision Anthony Goldbloom, Founder and CEO, Kaggle
Data biasKate Crawford, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research
Data accuracyElizabeth Crawford, Director of Human Computer Interactions, eBAY Research Labs
Working with data
Douglas Merrill, Founder & CEO, ZestFinance
Working with data
• Wrangle it:http://vis.stanford.edu/datawrangler
• Visualize it:http://d3js.org
• Crowdsource it:Old data: http://calbug.berkeley.eduNew data: http://ecoengine.berkeley.edu
Data privacy
Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye et al, “Unique in the Crowd: The privacy bounds of human mobility” Scientific Reports 3, Article number: 1376, 25 March 2013doi:10.1038/srep01376.
Kate Crawford, Principle Researcher, Microsoft Research New England