November 7, 2019

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Data in disasters: Saving lives and innovating in real time

Data in disasters: Saving lives and innovating in real time

Data to the rescue. Desi Matel-Anderson offers an immersive deep dive into the world of the Field Innovation Team, who routinely find themselves on the frontier of disasters working closely with data to save lives, at times while risking their own.

Talk Title Data in disasters: Saving lives and innovating in real time
Speakers Desiree Matel-Anderson (The Field Innovation Team)
Conference Strata + Hadoop World
Conf Tag Big Data Expo
Location San Jose, California
Date March 14-16, 2017
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Data to the rescue. Desi Matel-Anderson offers an immersive deep dive into the world of the Field Innovation Team, who routinely find themselves on the frontier of disasters working closely with data to save lives, at times while risking their own. Whether the team is in the Northeast during Hurricane Sandy making decisive decisions to automate damage assessments, in Boston exploring social media for a bigger picture of the Boston Marathon Bombings, or using drones to map data points to better understand the stability of the topography after mudslides struck Oso, Washington, the data the team is working with expedites response and recovery.

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