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Wild, wild data

name:Jer Thorp
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Over six years a set of exploratory systems is built: EXO for spatial Kepler data, Convene for meeting networks across large organizations, and Specimen Box for analyzing extremely large criminal botnets. The talk contrasts those tools with DataLand 1979, an MIT control‑center that enforces distant objectivity, then argues for pushing upstream into collection and the IoT — recounting field work and data collection in the Angolan highlands and what that change actually produces.

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