it's really why we need this person to help us understand what data is out there and how do we utilize that in conjunction with the other information that we already have. you can send a tweet. so, we're finalizing the job announcement now. if you're interested, or you know someone who is interested, you can send a tweet to sfmoci and we'll be posting the job announcement there. so, thank you very much. it's my pleasure to introduce the general manager of our rec and park department who has done some great partnerships around open data, phil ginsberg. (applause) >> can you all hear me? i'll talk into the mic. i'm the general manager of your recreation and park department and i really couldn't be happier. the recreation and park department is a city agency that historically has suffered from maybe the worst website and some of the worst technology in government. and over the last few years we have worked really hard to improve that park user's experience through the use of technology. and i want to start out before we talk a little about the app saying a if you thank yous. i really want

data set for pedestrian infrastructure. that's what we have identified too that it would be hopeful to have a better geographic of understanding of what pedestrian conditions are like throughout the city in a data set so we can understand where to target investment. the pedestrian strategy that mta has developed, it does, it's the same data that they used, this collision data. we are using the same data here that they used to develop the pedestrian strategy. it's very aligned in the sense of targeting those parts of the city that are experiencing the greatest volumes of collision as well as the greatest risk for collisions. >> thank you. >> good morning. thank you for the questions, the community and staff who have been serving in the pedestrian safety task force are getting to the point where we can answer the questions more confidently. we understand there is a need. there is going to be a follow up effort to the mayor's task force with a strategy taking into this next form a prioritization exercise to take on capital improvement projects following on the hearings. one of the things that we've identified in our strategies is

data set for pedestrian infrastructure. that's what we have identified too that it would be hopeful to have a better geographic of understanding of what pedestrian conditions are like throughout the city in a data set so we can understand where to target investment. the pedestrian strategy that mta has developed, it does, it's the same data

what caused two commuter trains to collide. the national transportation safety board is analyzing a fractured rail and pouring over investigation from the train's data recorders. >> understand not just what happens, but why it happens and determine ways to present it from happening again. >> during the friday evening rush hour, several cars traveling from new york to new haven derailed and collided with a second train coming from the opposite direction. about 700 people were on the two trains. more than 70 were injured. >> the damage is absolutely staggering. tons of metal tossed around like toy things inside of the cars are shattered. >> once investigators finish collecting what they need, crews will remove the damage trains and the tracks will need to be repaired. the tracks are causing travel problems. this is a busy travel corridor. amtrak suspended service between new york and new haven. commuters are worried about monday morning. >> how am i going to get to work? i rely on the train to get to work every day. >> so far, officials have not said how long it will take to reopen the tracks on this area. cbs news, bridgeport, connecticut. >>> and bridgeport's mayor says the

. >> we've been provided with what is some new information to us today, which provides some data, which i assume you have some knowledge of, although i do understand the information was provided by the opposing bid. could you comment on this? what are your thoughts on the new information? >> there's a reward to clear channel, but i think we probably would have seen bids of 6, 7, 8 million dollars at most. this is i think where mr. /roz and i disagree. i think there's no way we would have gotten that ten million dollar bid if there was a [inaudible]. >> if from your perspective we have seen significant growth, but given -- >> our high market share numbers won't be sustained. we have a lot of people driving from san jose and oakland. i expect they will get those daytime flights in the next year and we'll see a shift from the bay area traffic that is more balanced than what it is today. >> i do see this as a difference on what's in the best interest of the city /-fp i really have /praoerpbted that mr. martin has shared as much information as they can. i know that you know the mar /k*et market better than we do and your explanation of oak land and san

what caused two commuter trains to collide in bridge port connecticut? the national transportation safety board is pouring over information from the train's data recorders. >> thish jew to understand what happened and why it happened and determine ways to prevent it from happening again. >> reporter: several cars of the many throw north train traveling derailed and collided with a second train coming from the opposite direction. about 700 people were on the two trains. more than 70 were injured. >> the damage is staggering. tons of metal tossed around like toy things inside of the cars are shattered. >> reporter: once investigators finished collecting what hey need here at the scene crews will remove the damaged trains then the tracks will need to be repaired. the blocked tracks are causing travel problems. this is a busy commuter corridor on the route from new york to boston. suspended service between new york and new haven. commuters are worried about monday morning. >> how will i get to work? >> reporter: so far officials have not said how long it will take to reopen the tracks in this area. cbs news, bridge port connecticut. >>> 50 to 60 people are hurt after a man drove into

data was the same from that point to now? >> what mr. sanchez says that my interpretation of the points to calculate the height is correct. >> i understand that. i'm talking about the data of elevation and the original drawings say was on the slab and on the roof versus the data that you now have on the current top of slab on the ground floor, are they the same data? >> yes. >> okay. thank you. >> mr. barclay? i think this has already been made clear but to clarify for the record. i want to thank scott san chez in the planning department for agreeing to reevaluate. that's all i have. thank you. >> first i would like to clarify the address. originally this was 132nd avenue, it became el camino del mar not by voice. the board of supervisors decided that every single property with frontage on el camino del mar shall use el camino del mar as the address. subsequent ly the address changed. it's not our choice. i think when it comes to the height limit, they are a lot of data in the evaluation in the record of the planning department sections, drawings that exist to support the department's decision that it's an accurate building that is withi

data. we have two problems. one is understanding what the rest of the world is doing. secondly, making sure this is a world-class efficiency and availability to the american people. cesongressman issa here on on the hill. yury ofre speaking with the intel corporation. why is intel here? what are you demonstrating for members of congress? >> we are demonstrating the technologies that we are driving for intel computers. it is the ability for computers to understand the human world much like we do. we're trying to give computers eyes. when we see each other, we may not recognize each other cut the next time we will definitely remember. has ability to do that and utilizes the memory and remembers you are you are. >> what are you saying? no more passwords? >> exactly. >> devastate. >> -- demonstrate. >> this is my mission. i will log in and log out. there are three different users. i will point the machine to my face. it might take a while. what is it doing? >> it is looking at my facial features. it is trying to figure out i am a human being rather than a picture. if i'm g

. >> we are teach ago computer to go through large enough data and look at patterns and understand whatmean. >> gary angel is head of simphonics. that makes it one of the most experienced players in the data gathering game. a big part of what the folks do is scan the web and analyze data. it's not unlike what the nsa will try to do at the utah data center. sift through the noise and all of the world's electronic communications, isolate the fragments of troubling data then connect the dots before a threat materializes. >> what do you think would surprise people most about data mining? what do they know? >> iveng how clumsy it is. how much work goes into a single inclusion of the data. i think there's a sense that computers can do far more than they actually can. >> the biggest challenge isn't collecting and storing it it is making sense of it all. >> there's a selection of terms that a national security person might be interested in. things like radio active or nuclear power or bridges or stations or airports. here's the tricky stuff, if we miss stuff we don't know it. on the other hand,

placing one's trust in data without a deep appreciation of what the data means and an understanding of its limitations can lead to terrible consequences. in american history can be a war on behalf of the data point. the wall of vietnam and the data point was the body count used to measure progress when the situation was far, far more complex, so in the big data age, it's critical we do not follow blindly the path that big data seems to set. big data will help us, understand the world better, improve how we make decisions from what medical treatments work to how we educate our children to how a car can drive itself. it can also bring challenges and a danger. we have to harness the technology understanding that we remain its master, that just as there's a vital need to learn from data, we also need to carve out a space for the human, for our reasons, our imagination, for acting in defiance of what the data says because the data is always just a shadow of reality, and, therefore, it is always imperfect, always incomplete. as we walk into the big data age, we have to do so with humility an

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what caused to commuter trains to collide in bridgeport, connecticut. the national transportation safety board is analyzing a fractured rail and poring over information from a data recorders. >> our mission is to not understandhappened but why it happened. >> during the friday evening rush hour, several cars of the metro north train traveling from new york to new haven derailed and collided with a second train coming from the opposite direction. about 700 people were on the two trains. 70 were injured. >> the damage is absolutely staggering. tons of metal tossed around. inside of the cars are shattered. >> once investigators finish collecting looking at the scene, cruise will remove the damaged trains, the metrics will need to be. the blocked tracks are causing travel problems. this is a very busy commuter court on. amtrak suspended service to the new york in new haven. commuters are worried about monday morning. >> a look at to work? >> so far officials have not said how long it will take to reopen the tracks in this area. in bridgeport, connecticut, wjz eyewitness news. >> it could take time for the rail reopens information make other travel plans. >>> in virginia, 60 people injured after a car drives thro

we data mine, we're teaching the computer how to go through large amounts of data and look at large patterns and understand whatpany he founded over 15 years ago. that makes, he says, one of the most experienced players in the data mining game. >> i'm using a tool here called a listening tool. this tool collects information on things like twitter. >> a big part of what the folks here do is scan the web and analyze data. it's not unlike what the nsa will try to do at the utah data center. sift through the noise of all the world's electronic communications, isolate the fragments of troubling data, then connect those dots before a threat materializes. >> what do you think would surprise people most about data mining? what don't they know? >> i think how clumsy it is. how much work goes into getting the simplest conclusions out of the data. i think there's a sense that computers can do far more than they actually can. >> the biggest challenge isn't collecting and storing the information. it's making sense of it all. >> i picked a selection of terms that national security person might be interested in. so things lik

data. so we have two problems. one is understanding what the res of the world is doing, secondly and more importantly, making sure that there's a world class efficiency and availability to the american people of what the federal government is doing. they're both pretty vexing to people who don't work in technology every day. >> host: congressman darrell issa, chair of the government oversight and reform committee here on ces on the hill. we appreciate your time. and now on "the communicators" we're talking with yuri cose chuck. why is spell here? what are you demonstrating for members of congress and their staffs? >> guest: we're demonstrating the technology that we're driving the intel perceptual computing which is the ability for the computer, the brain, to understand the human world much like we do. so we're trying to give the computer the eyes. of when we see each other, we might not recognize each other by name next time, but we'll definitely remember that, hey, i saw him somewhere. so now the computer has the ability to do that, excep

>> that's the big question, what will it look like, are people comfortable with that many ads on that? look, nobody understands that more than facebook. they've got the dataey see what we're doing, when we're leaving the page, when we're not. i think we've got confidence that they'll try to find the right balance, for monetization, and still making it a good usage experience. but, again, i go back to some of the other bets that we've got out there to fall back on eventually. >> all right. we'll leave it there. great talking with you. >> thanks, guys. >> thanks so much. we're in the final stretch of trading, 40 minutes before the closing bell sounds for the day. we're shy of the highs with an 80-point rally. tomorrow we've got that msci rebalance. that's going to be big volumes. >> look out. >> gear up for it. >> get the popcorn. what a ride it's been for tesla. shares of the electric carmaker up 200% this year. when we come back, we'll find out if there's still time to get behind the driver's seat of that stock. a look at the charts, coming up. >> and what's the deal with sony? working with morgan stanley and citi? the stock is on fire. coming up, we're t

investigators did find the data recorders and they're now 54ing over the information on them, trying to understand what happened. for the next 7-10 days these traction will remain closed as investigators 5 pore over every inch. >> we'll be look at the breaking performance of the train, the condition of the wheels, the condition of the car. we'll be looking at the general condition of the track and the rail bed. in terms of the train operation, we'll be looking at how the crew behaved and how the crew operated the train. >> reporter: this is what investigators know so far-- the eastbound metronorth train left grand central terminal in new york at around 4:40, headlined towards new haven, connecticut. it had roughly 300 people on aboard. the westbound train left new haven for new york around 5:30 with about 400 people on board. shortly after 6:00 p.m., the eebled train derailed and swung to the left, striking the westbound train. passengers had no warning. >> everything just came to a sudden stop and we went flying. >> i thought this is the end. brace yourself. >> reporter: eyewitnesses described train w

data, so companies do. we hope these companies understand what their exposures are so that they are protected. like what you mentioned today, fourth, kellogg , avon, all of these companies actually presented their earnings to be lower than the projected because they said we did not expect the currency to move that much. i'm saying that likely part of the reason was that they did no have their forecasts and the countries with respect to the currency from let not forecasting the rate, but forecasting what their actual rowing to be exposed. liz: chairman and ceo looking i currencies. you also have the brazilian rea and as you looked at some of these names, they could suck up all of our federal reserve. weaken the currency and it becomes a problem. ligature companies and see the exposure. we will be right back. closing bell ringing in fivv minutes. stay tuned. .. ♪ [ cows moo ] [ sizzling more rain... [ thunder rumbles ] ♪ [ male announcer ] when the worldoves... futures move first. learn futures from experiend pros with dedicated chats and daily live webinars. and trade with papermoney to test-dr

placing one's trust in data without a deep appreciation of what the data means and understanding of the limitations can lead to terrible consequences. in american history, we have experienced a war fought on behalf of a data point. the war with vietnam. and the data point was the body cap. it was united statessed to measure progress -- it was used to measure progress when was situation was far, far more complex. so in the big data age, it will be critical that we do not follow behindly -- blindly the path that big data seems to say. big data will help us. it's going to help us understand the world better and improve decisions. reremain the master. we need to carve a space for the human for our reason, or imagination. for acting in defiance what the data says because the data is always just a shadow of reality. and therefore it is always imperfect, always incomplete. as we walk to the big data age, we need to do so with humility and humanity. thank you very much. [applause] wonderful thank you. coauthor of "big data" a. [applause] [applause] knew now it's time for the audience question a

i -- again, i understand that there's a difference of opinion here, but data for a shorter period of time may or may not shed light on what actually will end up getting paid by clear channel here. you may extrapolate that that leads you to this amount, bulge there may be fluctuations within a given year, so i'm not sure we gain anything by a /kopblt continuance and i don't have any reason to doubt the voracity of the numbers, but i think there's a legitimate difference of opinion here, but i say vote yes or no. enough has been discussed and clear channel or jc need to know where we are. >> supervisor wean /erp. winer. wiener. >> so when this first came up, i struggled with this. and initially i had a concern about other contractual relationships with clear channel around or bus stations and news racks and i've had numerous frustrations with those contracts. we have way too much clear channel stuff on our sidewalks so i had concerns about clear channel as a i voted against the most recent [inaudible] can't actually see much outside of the bus. i voted against the billboard contract at the plan department building at missio

investigators did find the data recorders, and they're now poring over the information on them, trying to understand exactly what happened here yesterday evening. for the next 7-10 days, these tracks will remain closed as investigators pore over every trac clo of damaged train and track, looking for the cause of the derailment. the national transportation safety board's earl weiner: >> we'll be looking at the braking performance of the train, the condition of the wheels, the condition of the car. we'll be looking at the general condition of the track and the ckil bed. termsms of the train operation, we'll be looking at how the crew behaved and how the crew operated the train. >> reporter: this is what investigators know so far: the eastbound metro north train left grand central terminal in new york at around 4:40, heading towards new haven, connecticut. it had roughly 300 people onboard. the westbound train, also a metro north, left new haven en route to new york around 5:30 with about 400 people on board. shortly after 6:00 p.m., the eastbound train derailed and swung to the left, striking the sstbound train. w

it is extremely unfortunate, but it probably is, as far as we can tell from what we know about the data and our understandings form, it probably is just an incredibly unfortunate coincidence. >> we're hearing, dr. brooks, including from the governor, that a lot of lives may have been saved by accurate forecasting, by the fact that the forecasts were essentially accurate, that people were told the storm was major and roughly where it was going to be. do you feel like we are making good predictions, including for today's storm that they're accurate and well disseminated as best could be done? >> you never know if anything is as best can be done. certainly have made a lot of progress. you think back to may 3rd, 1999 tornado, one of the big differences this time around is that starting last week on the 15th, there were forecasts that high lined today as the day that in this part of the country there was likely to be significant tornadoes and that message has been carried forward since then with more precision as we have gone day to day down to the point to now we can give warnings on the day particularly involve

data which i don't understand completely. maybe our friend from facebook can explain, his twitter colleagues what they do. a hash tag was created and "stop bullying sf barb and hash tag and generated 3 million personal impressions and 1.3 million followers within the last 24 hours. [applause] isn't that incredible? we talked about some of the dangers in social media today and i guess that's part of the beauty of social media and the video is part of that as well, so on behalf of all the childrens and families and parents and communities in the district i want to thank everybody for coming for all the work that you do. i feel optimistic in all of work that you do. thank you and go forth and do great work. >>> good evening, everybody. if i can have everybody's attention for a few minutes. we would like to welcome you to the reopening of our visitor information center here in san francisco. it's a real great occasion for us. we enjoy seeing it today than the way it was before. many visitors especially international visitors get off the bus at the airport and come here as their very first stop looking for inf

so that if decisions are being made, we can understand and that there is an understanding of what is exactly the data. >> if i could just talk about how you are a business leader yourself, and you mention your current business and you know the importance of this issue. one of the issues that we grapple with in congress is what is the best way to move forward constructively, particularly around the issue of information of the private and public sector. it seems to be a particular sticking point. what is your viewpoint on that particular issue as a business owner and as someone who is going to be charged with leading the commerce department. >> senator, i believe it is important for you to begin a dialogue with the business community and explain what is at stake. each business understands what is at stake for them individually. especially in terms of our

more trust that needs to exist so that if decisions are being made, there is an understanding of what exactly is the data senator, i look forward to working with you. we discussed that when we were together. is something that is very important to me. >> thank you. i would invite you to hit come up to gloucester to meet with our fishing community and the leaders who are supportive of that industry. >> thank you, senator, for the offer. >> if i can go back to a topic that has been raised by the chairman of the issue of cyber security. yourselfness leader and you mentioned the cyber hits theour current business, in billions. no the importance of this issue. one of the issues, we grapple with this in congress, is what is the best way to move forward constructively, particularly around the issue of information sharing between the private and public sector? it seems to be a particular sticking point. what is your view. on that particular issue, both as a business owner and someone who will be charged with leading the commerce department? >> senator, i think it is very important first to begin the dialogue with

but it's also the case data about who they are, what they've done and they don't understand the consequences of having served there. but it's not the situation at carl and others in vietnam think when they came back. most americans don't have any idea. they ask what would we do to help in its more than just an individual reaching out to hoe. the society recognize sameness, the sort of war that we have to realize there is a common responsibility to look at today's veterans. because started in two wars in 2001 and 2003. nobody anticipated how long they would take. the mission had been accomplished for the military. it was 10 years ago today or yesterday that they pulled over the statue of saddam hussein in a bad. nobody knew what to do next. nobody expect that the nature of the war. nobody prepared for the deployments we would ask people to serve. nobody thought about the nature of casualties. nobody thought about the care of the casualties coming out and we are still scrambling in terms of maintaining a force. it's not been ready for it. we're scrambling in terms of the medical system is cert

understand and have an idea what the statistics are. this is incredible. thank you so much for your efforts. >> thank you. >> commissioner turman: the fiscal year data on the mock-up goes back to 2010. does your data go back further than that? >> it goes back further than that. there is data going further back. >> within your portal? >> the data does exist; we just did not show it in this report. >> commissioner turman asked the question but i want to be clear that the data goes back further than what is indicated on the report. i also want to command and thank the team that is putting this together, the governance council, but certainly this is something to be very clear that has been in the making for over a decade. this really started with the task force, which is now in oversight panel as we have mentioned previously. there is a teamwork and resources to make sure we have coordinated data that is appropriate for each department so that we can again have not only a birdseye view but it a ground view. we have come a long way. i waited a long time. as a member of this commission but also many of the folks introduced earlier who have been working on someth

data is what we do. being able to understand what's happening in all parts of the plan that is really important and observationse. but satellites and rain rain gauges and radars and just about anything you can think about. so we're we are looking aqa aztec knowledge is it's another observing system to come into the picture systems were already using. so we're looking at very, very small short endurance ones although it to global readership would not fit and looking at those long endurance capabilities. one of the things to been emphasizing is looking at technologies that were very well fleshed out. the ones used by the military overseas and how can we take those technologies and rapidly deploy them for scientific purposes? we've heard of a lot of different things happening about the faa and privacy issues. our biggest hurdle is the cost. uis can be every system relative. it's cheaper than satellite and there's times when it could be very useful in helping us get detailed information over the ocean that we can't quite get to with other kinds of assets. also, the hand washable once or thinks he can watch from a s

what the city had. and part of that really neat understanding was that we were holding onto so much of our own data in our own silos with our own very focused obligations that we had, and not realizing that if we had released that data to the public, we could really allow them to help us create even more efficient government, along with some very good entrepreneurial efforts that are reflected in today's announcements and some of our partners that are here today. so, three years later, after announcing this and after doing the first generation of open data legislation, open sf is still a very vigorous, and we want to do even more. we've teamed up again with board president david chiu who has been personally involved with this and helping us and guide us with his knowledge, having been a small business owner himself, with how we can do even better. and today we are announcing actually two areas of improvements to our piece of legislation that i think will get people even more excited. the first is after a couple of years of opening up some of the data streams in our city and seeing how this data had alread

for marketing purpose, but in the case of etextbook, analytic data on students is what the teachers asked for. >> if fact member cans understandudent engaged with the material. are they making notes and highlights, are they spending time in the book -- that has to help the fact member coach the student for effectively and get to a successful outcome. >> i monitor students all the time. i give them tests, assignments and work to do. >> reporter: this doctor at san jose state doesn't buy the big brother argument. >> because students fail the first exam, i can see they also never opened the book. or looked at the book an hour before the exam. those kinds of things help me help my students. >> reporter: students that use the etextbooks can opt out or choose the printed version, which many still do. >> because you don't have to spend all that much time more staring at a screen because peep already spend too much time -- people already spend too much time looking at screens. >> reporter: the monetary software is being tested at a half does universities right now, none the california but it is expected to be used more heavily in the