Strata London 2012

Making Data Work

70 speakers

Coverage of Strata London 2012

56 sessions

Day 1 Monday 1st October 2012

• 9:00am Welcome

  presented by Kaitlin Thaney and Edd Dumbill

• 9:35am Keynote by Jake Porway

  presented by Jake Porway

• 10:00am Keynote by George Dyson

  presented by George Dyson

• 11:00am Think Like a Data Journalist: How the Guardian Makes Data Useful

  presented by Kathryn Hurley and Simon Rogers

• 11:20am The Dirty Truth about Data Literacy

  presented by Kim Rees

• 11:40am Keynote by Mark Madsen

  presented by Mark Madsen

• 11:55am The Manifest Destiny of Big Data

  presented by Kenneth Cukier

• 1:30pm Using Data in Retail Supply Chains - Case Studies from Tesco

  presented by Tom Hebbert

• 1:30pm Big Data, Big Changes: Data-Driven Product Development at Etsy

  presented by Dr. Jason Davis

• 1:30pm Emoto - Visualizing the Global Audience Response to London 2012

  presented by Moritz Stefaner, Gerrit Kaiser and Drew Hemment

• 1:30pm From Alpha to a Data-Driven Product

  presented by Ben Smith

• 2:00pm Big Data for the TV Industry: Tune into the Backchannel

  presented by Sébastien Lefebvre and Guy Hugot-Derville

• 2:00pm Big Data for the Masses: How We Opened Up the Doors to Google's Dremel

  presented by ryan boyd and Siddartha Naidu

• 2:00pm Sensing the City: Mapping and Analysing London's Population Data Flows

  presented by James Cheshire

• 2:00pm Making Big Data Small

  presented by Noel Welsh

• 2:30pm Back to Square One: Building a Data Science Team from Scratch

  presented by Klaas Bosteels

• 2:30pm Clojure: Full Stack Data Science

  presented by Edmund Jackson

• 4:00pm Health & Wealth - The Potential and Challenge of Healthcare Data

  presented by Louise Marston and Laura Bunt

• 4:00pm Establishing Cause and Effect from Data

  presented by Jason McFall

• 4:00pm How to Avoid Some Common Graphical Mistakes

  presented by Naomi B Robbins

• 4:00pm Introduction to Cascalog: Logic Programming for Hadoop

  presented by Stefan Hübner

• 4:30pm The New Genomics

  presented by Matt Wood

• 4:30pm Discovery-driven design in social games: techniques, processes, and problems

  presented by Heather Stark

• 4:30pm The craft of designing smart data applications

  presented by Lorenz Matzat

• 4:30pm Mapreduce and Hadoop Algorithms in Academic Papers - An Overview

  presented by Amund Tveit

• 5:00pm Self-Hacking: Self-Knowledge & Data Literacy

  presented by Adriana Lukas

• 5:00pm Should we care about content? Recommending by proxy with big metadata

  presented by Ben Fields

• 5:00pm Data Experience Design - New design methods for data visualisation

  presented by Max Gadney

• 5:00pm Handling RDF data with tools from the Hadoop ecosystem

  presented by Paolo Castagna

Day 2 Tuesday 2nd October 2012

• 9:15am Welcome

  presented by Kaitlin Thaney and Edd Dumbill

• 9:20am The Great Railway Caper: Big Data in 1955

  presented by John Graham-Cumming

• 9:50am The Secret Life of Data

  presented by Alasdair Allan

• 10:15am Keynote by Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino

  presented by Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino

• 11:15am Using data as a weapon to tackle climate change

  presented by Gavin Starks

• 11:15am How to fail your big data project quick and rapidly

  presented by Isabel Drost

• 11:15am The Development of Privacy law - Protecting Celebrities at the Expense of Everyone Else?

  presented by Helen Child

• 11:45am How to Save the World from Big Data: Tactics for Making Cloud Computing Massively Greener

  presented by Francine Bennett

• 11:45am Letting More Developers Dance with Elephants: What We Learned

  presented by Tim Mallalieu

• 11:45am Open Data - a new tool for government

  presented by johnlsheridan and Jeni Tennison

• 1:30pm Financial Data and Journalism - How Bloomberg Makes Data Work

  presented by marianne bouchart

• 1:30pm Hadoop and Beyond: Real World Architectures

  presented by Alvin Richards and Duncan Ross

• 1:30pm Subtlety and softness in data-driven art. It's not all infographics and screen-based visualizations

  presented by julie freeman

• 2:00pm Hacking Data for Hacks

  presented by Aron Pilhofer, Mirko Lorenz, Nicolas Kayser-Bril and Liliana Bounegru

• 2:00pm What's New in Hadoop MapReduce 2?

  presented by Tom White

• 2:00pm Machine as Collaborator

  presented by JD Vogt

• 2:30pm Transparency Transformed: From Data to Insight

  presented by Kris Hammond

• 2:30pm Data Availability and Integrity in Apache Hadoop

  presented by Steve Loughran

• 4:00pm Knowing What To Do With Data

  presented by Nick Halstead

• 4:00pm Customer Behavior Modeling at Scale

  presented by ted_dunning

• 4:00pm Best practices for publishing data

  presented by Hjalmar Gislason

• 4:30pm Data Science for Agile Strategy: From Formula 1 to the Boardroom

  presented by Simon Williams and Jacomo Corbo

• 4:30pm People watching with Machine Learning

  presented by Alasdair Allan and Zena Wood

• 4:30pm Democratising data journalism with the Miso project

  presented by Alex Graul, Irene Ros and Alastair Dant

• 5:00pm What Big Data Can Learn from Total Football, and Vice Versa

  presented by Matt Aslett

• 5:00pm Cleaning Gritty Data to tell a story in the News Room or the Board Room

  presented by thomaslevine

• 5:00pm Zooniverse: Web-scale Citizen Science

  presented by Arfon Smith

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