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CAS Initiative-Culture as Data: Social Spaces on the Internet-Orwant

Speaker Jon Orwant, Research manager, Google
Date Mar 5, 2013
Time 4:00 pm  
Location Coordinated Science Laboratory, Room B02, Auditorium; 1308 W. Main, Urbana
Cost Free and Open to the Public
Sponsor Center for Advanced Study
Contact Liesel Wildhagen
E-Mail wildhage@illinois.edu
Phone 217-333-6729
Event type Lecture
Views 2072
Originating Calendar Center for Advanced Study

Big Data

For the first time in our history, it's possible to analyze the entire output of our society at once. All the books, all the pictures, all the videos, all the people: each is a corpus of information now amenable to computational processing. In this talk I'll give some examples and talk about the implications of being able to crunch data on the largest possible scales.