Ben Vershbow walks through The New York Public Library’s experiments in digitizing historical maps, showing how they can be processed (with the help of computers and crowds) into open ...

Digital advertising is an industry whose foundation is massive volumes of data. Ad tech companies must be at the forefront of innovation in modeling and data infrastructure to support and ...

At its heart, the Internet Archive is an invitation to collaborate. To work together to open and explore humanity's cultural artifacts. To foster education and scholarship by facilitating highly scaled ...

While prior work in computer vision has focused on what is in the image, in this talk, we leverage big data to look beyond the simple visual elements to develop ...

This talk surveys a cross-section of Kalev's latest projects of the past year, offering glimpses into some of the greatest challenges and opportunities of the big data revolution and how ...

Scholarly journal articles and books are becoming dynamic and less “bounded.” Whereas even in digital format, these primary units of scholarly communication and artifacts of the scholarly record once were ...

Nicholas Marko and Oleg Roderick address the issue of using incomplete, damaged, incorrectly interpreted, and otherwise “dirty” data in modern analytics, and use their experiences in healthcare as a baseline ...