Join the Social Data Revolution!

• http://weigend.com

Many people are asking: What is the Social Data Revolution? Here is the 4-minute video answer!

Presentation by Andreas Weigend (Andreas S. Weigend, Ph.D.). Mankind is transformed by the data created by individuals. Information overload has become more serious than ever. Social discovery is the new search. What applications can we build to create relevant meaning in our lives?

Extract Insights from Twitter
Put Yourself in Google's Shoes
Develop Relevance Beyond Amazon
Build Revolutionary Facebook Applications

In the last year, your location and personal medical information have become the latest streams in the river of data, joining email, clicks, searches, social networking, and buying patterns. Gathering, sharing, and storing data has become trivial. But what shall we collect, and what applications can we build that users really need?

Data mining is no longer the process of digging through data morgues to uncover scraps of still-viable information. Success in the online marketplace now hinges on people and the data they create. E-business is no longer about selling books.

Students: Lead the Social Data Revolution by taking STATS 252 this Spring (Data Mining and E-Business, 3 units). Undergrad, grad, and SCPD students with web programming experience are welcome. Enroll using Axess ID 10584.
Attend the first class on Monday, April 6, 2009 at 2:15 5:05 pm in Gates B01.

Everyone else: Find the latest content and discover people who change the world through data.

Likely guests speakers include:
Gina Bianchini (founder of Ning)
Reid Hoffman (founder and CEO of LinkedIn)
Kevin Kelly (founder of Wired and kk.org)
Jan Pedersen (former Chief Scientist of Yahoo)

... and a surprise from Facebook!

Suggest guest speakers for this year through wall posts!

For previous course notes and information, please see:
• http://weigend.com/teaching/
• http://stanford2008.wikispaces.com/
• http://ischool2008.wikispaces.com/

Andreas Weigend is a former Chief Scientist at Amazon.com and the author of over 100 scientific papers on the application of machine learning techniques to finance and business problems.

He currently lectures at Stanford, Berkeley and Tsinghua Universities on the application of data analysis to electronic business problems. He is an advisor to many technology companies including MySpace and Nokia, and is a limited partner in The Founders Fund.

Andreas Weigend studies people and the data they create. Andreas was the Chief Scientist at Amazon.com, where he specialized in understanding how people behave online, helping Amazon build its customer-centric, measurement-focused culture.

Andreas Weigend advises exciting startups and consults for established firms including Alibaba, Best Buy, Lufthansa, MySpace, and Nokia; helping some of the most brilliant entrepreneurs and executives around the world leverage user data to create innovative products and business models. He also teaches at Stanford and UC Berkeley, and is often invited to speak at international events.

Video Filmed & Produced by Shaun Tai for SHAUN TAI Films / TECH AFFAIR (www.techaffair.com) - ©2009 - shaun@ztymedia.com, (925) 297-9370. (less info)