TEDxUofM - Jameson Toole - Big Data for Tomorrow

TEDxUofM took place April 8th, 2011 at the historic Michigan Theater on the campus of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Jameson Toole -- University of Michigan 2010, Jameson Toole is a PhD in MIT's Engineering Systems Division with the support of a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. His research focuses on using large behavioral data sets generated from the web (Twitter, Facebook, Google, etc.), cell phones, or any other means, to find emergent patterns in human behavior and dynamics. Toole completed his undergraduate degrees at the University of Michigan majoring in Physics, Mathematical Physics, and Economics.
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