AI & Crowd for good: Big data challenges for disaster response and recovery.

The NSF Big Data Innovation Hubs Transportation Challenge is showcasing partner technology (from DataScience.com,Amazon, Microsoft and others) and cloud-based data science resources to directly address big data challenges surfaced by recent natural disasters in Texas and Florida.

This event is co-sponsored with the Our Lives, Our Data (https://www.meetup.com/our-lives-our-data-la/events/243375812/) meetup.

From the White House to the Cloud to You: National Collaborations for Big Data Disaster Response

Meredith Lee (https://amplab.cs.berkeley.edu/author/mmlee/), PhD, West Big Data Hub (http://westbigdatahub.org) Executive Director and former lead of the White House Innovation for Disaster Response & Recovery Initiative under the Obama Administration will be in Los Angeles following a visit to Florida for the Grace Hopper conference.

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Dr. Lee will be speaking at DataScience.com headquarters in LA, discussing how Challenge (bigdatahubs.io) technology, including nsf.datascience.com, can be used through government, industry, academic collaborations to serve disaster response,relief, and prediction. Regional participants in the challenge will join as speakers and additional presenters.

BYOL!! Crowd Sourced Mapping to Support Puerto Rico & Other Disaster Relief Efforts

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Dave Goodsmith (https://www.datascience.com/blog/author/dave-goodsmith) and other members of the digital mapping community will work with participants who have brought their own laptops to contribute to digital mapathon efforts through the Humanitarian Open Street Map Team (http://tasks.hotosm.org/?sort_by=priority&direction=asc&search=hurricane) and Open Street Maps. Goodsmith, Managing Data Scientist at DataScience.com, will provide an overview of the power of crowd sourced mapping as well as the critical government trust earned by projects like OSM by governments and the red cross -- a requirement for transforming remote digital expertise into direct aid.

Sign up to access Over $100,000 Worth of Big Data Resources and Credits

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Participants will have the opportunity to access nsf.datascience.com (http://bit.ly/nsf_datascience_demo) and be able to leverage donated cloud resources from Amazon.com, Microsoft, Google and others and execute and develop data science demonstrations during and after the event. Collaborative teams will be formed to continue work following the event on both mapping and more sophisticated machine learning efforts.

Food and beverages will be provided at the event.

More details to follow. Please contact the meetup organizers or socal@bigdatahubs.io with any specific questions.