SIANInnovations
I will be giving a brief talk and participating in a Q&A at thee Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai SINAInnovations conference.
KDD - Industry and Government Invited Talks
I will be speaking about data science and the social sciences at ACM's Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining conference, as one of the invited industry and government talks.
Informatica World
I will be keynoting at Informatica World 2014 in the afternoon of May 15th. I will be discussing the role DataKind plays in raising the social sector through data science.
NYU - Applied Quantitative Research Seminar
I will be presenting my work, "Methods for Collecting Large-Scale Non-Expert Text Coding" to the students in NYU's AQR program.
Strata Santa Clara - Data for Good panel
I will be participating in the Data for Good panel discussion at Strata Santa Clara.
There are plenty of problems in the world that could use a little insight. From poverty, to starvation, to the fair distribution of resources, to maximizing charitable donations, a little data, properly applied, goes a long way. In this session, Edgeflip and Data Science for the Social Good’s Rayid Ghani, IA Ventures Scientist-in-residence and Datakind co-founder Drew Conway, and Datakind co-founder and executive director Jake Porway look at where data is making a difference today, what it promises tomorrow, and what’s holding it back.
ADS*CON
I will be speaking at this year's ADS*CON conference about some of the work the City of New York and the Mayor's Office of Data Analytics does to improve the delivery of city services through the deep analysis of data.
From the conference website:
ADS*CON*14 is a half-day symposium dedicated to exploring how we find meaningful signals in massive and often noisy data sets. It will explore the impact of bigger and more varied data on building models and understanding markets.
NYC DataKind DataDive
I will be working as a Data Ambassador for the Mayor's Office of Data Analytics team.
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
I will be speaking at UW-M on perspectives on data science for social scientists.
Panel at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute on NYC Data
Will be discussing how MODA uses data science.
Data Science for Social Good talk
I will be speaking to the Data Science for Social Good Fellows
Tech@State
I will be speaking on the Moneyball Diplomacy panel at the Tech@State conference.
Data Driven NYC Meetup
I will be speaking at the Data Driven NYC Meetup on the value of social science in hiring data scientists.
Orrick Total Access and IA Ventures Big Data Event
Appearing on a panel with other members of the NYC data community.
Hearst Off-site, Legal Implications of Big Data
Appearing on a panel discussing the the legal implications of web-scale data collection.
Cloudera Tech Talk
Discussing research on non-expert text coding at Cloudera's San Francisco office.