SPATIAL
DATA SCIENCE CONFERENCE

Speakers

Agenda

9:00 - 9:10

Intro + logistics

9:10 - 10:50

Keynote

• Seth Spielman

  Associate Professor of Geograpahy, University of Colorado Boulder

Keynote

• Carl Anderson

  Senior Data Scientist, WeWork

Response

• Daniel Arribas-Bel

  Lecturer in Geographic Data Science, University of Liverpool

10:50 - 11:00

Coffee Break

11:00 - 11:50

Big Spatial Data

• Todd Mostak

  CEO and Co-founder, MapD

• Paul Ramsey

  Solutions Architect, CARTO

11:50 - 12:10

Lightning Talks

• Carlos Sandoval

  PhD Candidate in Architecture Computation, MIT

• Amanda Doyle

  Technical Product Manager, NYC Department of City Planning

• Rahani Green and Anali Valdez

  Urban Fellows, NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene

12:10 - 12:40

Lunch

12:40 - 2:20

Novel case studies

• Peter Lenz

  Senior Geospatial Analyst, Dstillery

• Shan Jiang

  Postdoctoral Associate, MIT DUSP

• Glen Johsnon

  Associate Professor, City University of New York School of Public Health

• Daniel Merchan

  Daniel Merchán, Ph.D. Candidate MIT

2:20 - 2:30

Coffee Break

2:30 - 3:45

Theory and methods

• Robert Manduca

  PhD Candidate in Sociology and Social Policy, Harvard

• Mohammed Vazifeh

  Lead data scientist, MIT Senseable City Lab

• Levi Wolf

  Lecturer in Quantitative Human Geography, University of Bristol

3:45 - 4:10

Tools and Workflows

• David Nesbitt

  Software Director, Mapzen

4:10 - 5:10

Unconference Session

5:10 - 5:30

Lightning Talks

• Andy Eschbacher

  Map Scientist, CARTO

• Will Geary

  Masters of Science Candidate, Columbia University

• Philip Martin

  VP Data, SumAll.com

• Manushi Majumdar

  Product Engineer, ArcGIS Hub

5:30 - 6:00

Closing keynote

• Stuart Lynn

  Head of Research and Data, CARTO

• Julia Koschinsky

  Research Director, Center for Spatial Data Science, University of Chicago

6:00 - …

Drinks

Organizing Committee

Companies