First Big Data Analytics Meet Up Workshop & Breakfast

Agenda:

8am-830am Breakfast

830am-10am Presentations

• "Overview of Big Data Analytics in Fire Protection" - Nathaniel Lin, PhD, NFPA Data & Analytics Strategy Lead

• "Controlling Words to Give Data Meaning - Taxonomy, Tagging, Ontology and such" - Edee Edwards, NFPA Taxonomy & Metadata Librarian

• "Smart Data for Smart Fire Fighting" - Bart van Leeuwen, Senior Career Fire Fighter at the Amsterdam-Amstelland Fire Department in the Netherlands and the Owner of Netage (http://netage.nl/en/)

• "FireCARES: Development of a Community & Fire Risk Model" - Craig Weinschenk, Fire Research Division, NIST