Soundview to Host Interactive Webinar with Steve Lohr

PHILADELPHIA - April 6, 2015 - PRLog -- In this Soundview Live webinar, The Revolution That’s Transforming Everything, Steve Lohr explains how individuals and institutions will need to exploit, protect, and manage their data to stay competitive in the coming years. Filled with rich examples and anecdotes of the various ways in which the rise of Big Data is affecting everyday life, it raises provocative questions about policy and practice that have wide implications for all of our lives. Learn more at http://www.summary.com/track/_/The-Revolution-Thats-Transforming-Everything.

Steve Lohr has covered technology, business, and economics for the New York Times for more than twenty years and writes for the Times' Bits blog. In 2013 he was part of the team awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting. He was a foreign correspondent for a decade and served as an editor, and has written for national publications such as the New York Times Magazine, the Atlantic, and the Washington Monthly. He is the author of Go To: The Story of the Math Majors, Bridge Players, Engineers, Chess Wizards, Maverick Scientists, and Iconoclasts—the Programmers Who Created the Software Revolution. He lives in New York City.

You Will Learn:

•          That Big Data is the next phase, in which vast, Internet-scale data sets are used for discovery and prediction in virtually every field.

•          How, if exploited, this new revolution will change the way decisions are made.

•          How relying more on data and analysis, and less on intuition and experience, can transform the nature of leadership and management.

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