OUR SHOW TODAY will launch a series of programs on “big data” - its impact on issues like national defense, elections and personal privacy. We will also continue our examination of USA gun culture.

Our featured guest is Andreas Weigend. Andreas is an expert on social-local-mobile technologies, big data, and consumer behavior, the combination of which he calls the social data revolution. He was the chief scientist at Amazon, where he helped create that company's culture of data, experimentation, and innovation. Andreas is the founder and director of the Social Data Lab, a mentor at Stanford's StartX, and a lecturer at UC Berkeley. His clients include Alibaba, BMW, Deutsche Telekom, GE, Hyatt, Lufthansa, MasterCard, Tencent, and the World Economic Forum. He is the author of “Data For The People” – 2016, Basic Books.
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