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DESCRIPTION:Click for Latest Location Information: http://semtech2011.semanticweb.com/sessionPop.cfm?confid=62&proposalid=3774\nIn today's environment of accelerating consumer expectations, anyone building an app or service must continuously look for data which adds value to the end-user.  In other words, they must continuously look for good, structured data at reasonable terms.  \nSeveral companies, Factual being one, have been tackling this issue, attempting to build services and components for developers large and small. Meanwhile, the walls between data silos are crumbling - open government data, API platforms, etc. - creating greater opportunities, as well as challenges, in this new data environment.\nMy goal with this talk will be to inform the SemTech audience of the current state of the data environment, the challenges that lie ahead, and the efforts many of us are engaged in to meet these challenges through a variety of tools and approaches.  \nThe structure of the talk will be as follows:\n<ul><li>Discuss the current data landscape\n<li>Explore the challenges of finding and integrating good data\n<li>Discuss new algorithmic approaches to handing data, such as rules-based and machine-learned data structuring,  and de-duplication algorithms \n<li>Discuss the opportunities and challenges of enhancing data through crowdsourcing </ul>
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SUMMARY:Facing the Big Data Challenge
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