As large datasets come together exciting and unexpected things can happen. Human behavior is high dimensional, so combining many diverse datasets is critical to revealing actionable insights.

1. Data Mashups
May 12, 2011
Data Scientist Summit
Turning Data Exhaust into
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LinkedIn Insights
@peteskomoroch

2. We have an explosion of data
• DataWrangling
• InfoChimps
• Data.gov
• Factual
• SimpleGeo

3. And the tools to make sense of it
• Hadoop
• NoSQL
•R
• Python
• Mechanical Turk

4. Diverse datasets = better signal

7. Find a meaningful problem
• Identify pain points
• Work on stuff that
matters
• Focus on
underutilized data
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8. Trendingtopics.org @hourlytrends

9. LinkedIn Skills

10. The best mashups are actionable
• Reveal patterns
• Enable predictions
• Recommendations

11. Mashup: Skills & Cities

12. Yuba City, California: 21.3% Unemployment

13. Ames, Iowa: 4.7% Unemployment

14. Make data mashups work for you
• Open Data = powerful mashups
• Mashup > sum of its parts
• Focus on meaningful problems
• Actionable mashups are better