What does an anthropologist think of big data? In this talk, Genevieve Bell invites us to step back and find a new, well actually quite old, frame of reference for big data. We have been dealing with big data for millennia. Approaching big data...

Does collecting more data lead to better decision-making? Competitive, data-savvy companies like Amazon, Google and Netflix have learned that data analysis alone doesn't always produce optimum results. In this talk, data scientist Sebastian Wernic...

Maciej Ceglowski draws a parallel between the data industry and the troubled nuclear energy. h3. It's time to tackle data's disposal problem. Maciej Ceglowski makes the case for adopting enforceable limits for data storage Maciej Ceglowski a...

Hilary Mason was tired of sending the same email over and over again. So she decided to create a program to write and send them for her. She offended some people along the way, but now that she's perfected it you never know if she or her personal ...

Facebook’s “like” and “share” buttons are seen 22 billion times a day, making them some of the most-viewed design elements ever created. Margaret Gould Stewart, Facebook’s director of product design, outlines three rules for design at such a massi...

Mr. Reed is generally bullish on the power of data. He took the audience through a litany of ways in which President Obama used data to win re-election, such as scraping supporters’ Facebook information to blast out personalized email messages.

Big Data has made it cheaper to keep information than delete it. *But what is its value to the user experience?* Jim reviews what data can be collected and how useful it can be to improve customer response and satisfaction. How we can bene...