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CATEGORIES:ECS Seminars
CONTACT:Jeremy Ginsberg (Movac\, NZ)
DESCRIPTION:Launched in 2008\, Google Flu Trends was one of the earliest sy
 stems demonstrating the power of "big data"\, harnessing the collective in
 telligence of 100's of millions of search users to accurately track the sp
 read of disease outbreaks. When the first cases of H1N1 Swine Flu emerged 
 in 2009\, the United States CDC and health agencies around the world relie
 d on Flu Trends to help inform key public health decisions. In this talk\,
  I cover the origins of the project and the methodology we developed\, alo
 ng with a retrospective on some of the lessons learned.\n\nBio: Jeremy Gin
 sberg is a software leader with 17 years of experience building products a
 nd leading teams in Silicon Valley. Most recently\, Jeremy served as Head 
 of Engineering and Data Science at Color\, a fast-growing health tech star
 tup in California. Jeremy now lives in Auckland\, New Zealand and works wi
 th Movac as CTO-in-Residence. Previously\, Jeremy was a Vice President at 
 Twitter where he led the global revenue engineering teams. Jeremy also spe
 nt 9 years as a software engineer and technical lead at Google\, where he 
 led projects focused on machine learning\, search quality\, survey analyti
 cs\, and a novel disease surveillance project called Flu Trends. Jeremy ho
 lds a M.S. in Computer Science and a B.S. in Symbolic Systems from Stanfor
 d University. Jeremy's connection to New Zealand dates back to 2002\, when
  he taught computer science at Victoria University of Wellington.\n\nThis 
 talk is part of the New Zealand Software Innovation Seminar (SI^NZ) Series
 : https://softwareinnovation.nz/seminars/\n\nZoom Link (not recorded): htt
 ps://vuw.zoom.us/my/softwareinnovationnewzealand\n
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LOCATION:Coton 431
ORGANIZER:Jeremy Ginsberg (Movac\, NZ)
SUMMARY:Jeremy Ginsberg (Movac\, NZ) - The Making of Google Flu Trends
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URL:https://softwareinnovation.nz/seminars/
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