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University of Montana speaker Dan Wagner, founder and CEO of Civis Analytics : Big data brings new tools to elections, education, more

The old method of spending millions of dollars running flashy campaign ads and cold-calling voters was upended in 2012 when a team of big-data scientists found a new way of doing business.

Led by Dan Wagner, founder and CEO of Civis Analytics http://www.civisanalytics.com/ , the team applied new tools to mine social media and data sets from municipal elections to identify specific voters, forgoing outdated methods that focused heavily on large demographic blocks.

By Martin Kidston

Full Story: http://ravallirepublic.com/news/state-and-regional/article_58a1d884-6eba-540c-bb6f-30c68a5b9084.html

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Big Data Alliance Meeting, 2/25, Missoula, Montana http://www.matr.net/article-59436.html

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INSIDE THE CAVE

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