Geneva's Big Humanitarian Data
Created by Tim Head / @betatim
and by THE Port / @theportatcern
Timetable
- Getting to know each other
- Setting the scene
- Getting technical
- The cutting edge
THE Port - non-profit association
"We combine creative minds from CERN and non-profit organisations in interdisciplinary teams to work on humanitarian technology related benefits to society."
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Datasauri
Humanitarian Field Data, Alive!
Understanding humanitarian field data for rapid decision making; This project will tackle global problems of field data handling, from collection to visualisation. Augmenting the human eye by making available tools such as Virtual Reality (VR) to visualize living data.
Hi, I'm Tim
Previously: scientist at CERN, EPFL.
Now: Data done better, a data scientist for hire (or a CERN brain in a box).
Started Wild Tree Tech.
Hello You
What brings you here?
Briefly introduce yourself: Name, affiliation, 30seconds, go!
Big Data?
The tool to make sense of (big) data is machine learning.
Some Examples
The Higgs at CERN
Predict High School Dropouts
A DSSG project uses student data to spot who is at risk of becoming a high school drop out.
Google Flu Trends
Predict flu cases from search query activity ahead of official estimates.
Start with a Need
How to identify needs that could be addressed with data?
This is a tricky question
- What is tedious, repetitive, annoying, impossible?
- What would be helpful, useful, awesome or amazing if it existed?
Two things to bear in mind
Interactivity rules
Ideally you want to run your data analysis on your laptop.
It is just so(!) much simpler and more efficient.
Big Memory is Eating Big Data
Single machine memory has been growing faster than typical data set size.
For $2.66/hr you can rent a machine with 32CPUs, 244GB of memory and 640GB of disk space.
Let's do it LIVE
Fasten your seatbelts!
Topic modelling
Tagging images
http://arxiv.org/abs/1502.01852
Describing images
http://arxiv.org/abs/1502.03044
Questions ??!
Material: http://bit.ly/wttghbd