Free harmonized data to the people

Google Tech Talks
February, 21 2008

ABSTRACT

Organizing the world's information is great, but you end up with a lot of GIGO. While technology can clean up some things, without human intervention, you're still going to be left wanting. See what happens when cleaned up geodata meets some of the more pressing problems facing society today; and the humorous, or less humorous side, of what happens when you don't bother.




Speaker: Troy Anderson
Troy Anderson leads KnowledgePlex® and DataPlace™ two sites established out of the Fannie Mae Foundation. Prior to that, he was Vice-President/Co-Founder of his tribe's economic development corporation -- CEDCO; Consultant at Keane; President of StockMaster, an online financial site sold to Red Herring; and, SVP of IT & Interactive at the Industry Standard. A Stanford BA/MA and a Kellogg MBA, Troy wrote the Way of Go, published by Simon & Schuster, on how the game of Go informs strategic thinking.

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[EssentialLiving]

Apparently, Google's altruistic basis of their business plan is in harmony with KnowledgePlex's DataPLace free data collection, comparison and presentation tools. Fantastic. I can't wait to use it to develop Essential Housing.

[fedstat1]

confusing.. he says it's an open source platform at 37:50, but when asked if source is available he backs off that idea..

anyone know if the source code is available? or if they're sharing the actual data?

[sugarpuddin88]

Great story teller & speaker

Great presentation skills - Bravo!