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Kevin Weil
Lead, Twitter, Inc.

Website | @kevinweil

Kevin Weil leads the team at Twitter, building distributed infrastructure and leveraging data analysis at a massive scale to help grow the popular micro-blogging service. With millions of monthly site visitors and many more interacting through API-based third party applications, Twitter has one of the world’s most varied and interesting datasets. Prior to joining Twitter, Kevin led the team at the Kleiner Perkins-backed web media startup Cooliris. Kevin earned his bachelor’s degree in Mathematics and Physics from Harvard University, and has a master’s degree in Physics from Stanford University.

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2:35pm Tuesday, 03/30/2010

Spatial Workshop

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Location: Ballroom IV

Peter Skomoroch (LinkedIn), Kevin Weil (Twitter, Inc.), Sean Gorman (FortiusOne)

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This workshop will focus on uncovering patterns and generating actionable insights from large datasets using spatial . We will explore combining open government data with other location based information sources like Twitter. Participants will be guided through examples that use Hadoop and Amazon EC2 for scalable processing of location data. Read more.