Events

Communication in the Age of Big Data

3/14/13
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Tufte Performance and Production Center
Semel Theatre

Big Data: the overwhelming amounts of information available now via online computing and social media create enormous challenges and transofrmative opportunities for communication professionals. Anyone going into such fields as news gathering and reporting, marketing, politics, health and medicine, online dating, travel, and education will want to know what Big Data means and how its applications are revolutionziing what we do.

This event features Chris Lynch of Hack/Reduce in Cambridge, who helps companies with Big Data challenges and works with Governor Deval Patrick's Masschusetts Big Data initiative. Other speakers TBA.

The event is free and open to all members of the Emerson community.

This event is not open to the public.

Sponsored by School of Communication

For more information please contact:
Phillip Glenn
617-824-8739

Communication in the Age of Big Data

3/14/13
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Tufte Performance and Production Center
Semel Theatre

Big Data: the overwhelming amounts of information available now via online computing and social media create enormous challenges and transofrmative opportunities for communication professionals. Anyone going into such fields as news gathering and reporting, marketing, politics, health and medicine, online dating, travel, and education will want to know what Big Data means and how its applications are revolutionziing what we do.

Speakers:
Chris Lynch, Co-Founder of Hack/Reduce
Justin Borgman, CEO and Co-Founder of Hadapt
Fred Lalonde, CEO and Co-Founder of Hopper

The event is free and open to all members of the Emerson community.
 

This event is not open to the public.

Sponsored by School of Communication

For more information please contact:
Diego Salazar
617-824-8354