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Thursday, May 31, 2012

Predicting the Present with Google Trends
Hal Varian, Chief Economist, Google
Michael Chui, Senior Fellow, McKinsey Global Institute

Friday, June 1, 2012

Welcome and Introduction

Chaos Control: the Art of Using Data to Manage in Today’s Chaotic World
DJ Patil, Data Scientist in Residence, Greylock Partners

Scaling Smart: Understanding Data Skill Needs for Any Organization
Amr Awadallah, Chief Technology Officer, Cloudera
DJ Patil, Data Scientist in Residence, Greylock Partners
Sharmila Shahani-Mulligan, CEO, ClearStory Data

Data as a Service: The Next Big Layer in the Cloud?
Gil Elbaz, Founder & CEO, Factual

Big Data? Bigger Decisions!
Steve Weber and Andy Brooks, UC Berkeley School of Information

The Art of Social Data
Andreas Weigend, Director, Social Data Lab, Stanford University

What Data Scientists Can Learn From Data Artists
Martin Wattenberg, Research Scientist, Google

Breakout Session: Algorithms, Machines, and People (AMP) Lab
Mike Franklin, UC Berkeley

Size Matters: Big Data, New Vistas in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Mark Liberman, University of Pennsylvania
Geoffrey Nunberg, UC Berkeley School of Information
Matthew Salganik, Princeton University

Privacy Challenges for Big Data
danah boyd, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research; Research Assistant Professor, New York University