Nate Silver to Keynote the Rich Data Summit

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 29, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- CrowdFlower, the essential data enrichment platform for data science teams, today announced that Nate Silver, editor-in-chief of ESPN's FiveThirtyEight blog and author of the bestselling book "The Signal and the Noise," will deliver the keynote presentation at CrowdFlower's Rich Data Summit on October 14 in San Francisco.

"When we planned the Rich Data Summit we wanted a keynote speaker who embodied the groundbreaking nature of data science, and no one does that more strongly than Nate Silver," said Lukas Biewald, chief executive officer and founder at CrowdFlower. "Nate has demonstrated that the availability of more data and better quality data opens up new insight in arenas as diverse as sports and politics."

In addition to Nate Silver, there will also be keynotes from Monica Rogati, one of the early members of LinkedIn's data science team, Lukas Biewald, CEO and founder at CrowdFlower, Beth Simone Noveck, former U.S. Deputy Chief Technology Officer and director of the White House Open Government Initiative in the Obama administration, and Andreas Weigend, former Chief Scientist at Amazon. 

The Rich Data Summit is a one-of-a-kind event focused on wrangling, cleaning, labeling and enriching data. In addition to the keynote speakers, the day includes a packed schedule of more than 25 sessions and workshops covering topics from data analysis to machine learning, open data, data for public good, data privacy and more. Attendees can hear from data scientists at companies such as Uber, Pinterest, Intuit, Groupon, Ebay, Edelman and Cloudera.

"We're excited to host the Rich Data Summit," said Biewald. "There are a number of data science conferences but we wanted to create one that reflected the reality that data scientists face today. Time and again, we hear how data scientists spend 80% of their time cleaning and preparing data, leaving only 20% of it for the exciting stuff like predictive analysis or machine learning. Most conferences focus on that 20%; we wanted to focus on the 80% instead. It's not a sustainable world where data scientists are so expensive to hire and then spend 80% percent of their time on data cleanup."

The Rich Data Summit has also attracted a number of sponsors who share CrowdFlower's goal of building the data science ecosystem, including O'Reilly Media, ODSC, Basis Technology, Mode Analytics, iMerit, Chartio, Galvanize, Databricks, Metis, Trifacta, MemSQL, Dato, DataSift, Smyte, Keboola and Dataiku.

The event is expected to attract more than 500 data scientists, and limited tickets remain. To register visit www.richdatasummit.com.

About CrowdFlower
CrowdFlower is the essential data enrichment platform for data science teams. CrowdFlower is focused on making data useful by helping data teams collect, clean and label their data. The CrowdFlower platform combines the best of machine and human intelligence to create high quality large-scale datasets for machine learning and data categorization faster than anyone else.

Headquartered in San Francisco and backed by Trinity Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners and Canvas Venture Fund, CrowdFlower serves data science teams at Fortune 500 and fast-growing data-driven organizations across a wide variety of industries. For more information, visit www.crowdflower.com 

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