Data For The People

Andreas Weigend
Social Data Lab

Join us this Wednesday at 4:30pm for the Stanford EE Computer Systems Colloquium:
Andreas Weigend will share his journey from starting as a PhD student at Stanford in neural networks, to becoming the Chief Scientist at Amazon, and ultimately writing the book Data for the People, that came out last week (Jan 31, 2017) and was displayed on Times Square for free!

Sign up at http://ourdata.com/tour by February 12 (Sunday) to get an electronic copy of the book. Read it. And bring your questions to the talk!

Andreas Weigend just published his book, Data For The People on big data, transparency and what to do about it. As the former Chief Scientist at Amazon, he helped create Amazon's culture of data and innovation.

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About the speaker:

Andreas has taught courses at Stanford in CS, MS&E, Psych and Stats, and is now a lecturer at UC Berkeley. He is also a mentor at StartX and a limited partner at Founders Fund, focusing on social-local-mobile technologies and consumer behavior. Andreas is the founder and director of the Social Data Lab. Clients include Alibaba, BMW, Deutsche Telekom, GE, Hyatt, Lufthansa, MasterCard, Lufthansa, Tencent, and the World Economic Forum. He lives in San Francisco, Shanghai, and on weigend.com/where.

Contact information:

Data for the People:	ourdata.com
Andreas Weigend:	http://weigend.com/i
Email:	aweigend@cs.stanford.edu
Twitter:	@aweigend
Phone:	650 906-5906