• Like every other industry that is being disrupted by the internet, media companies are finding it increasingly important to work with and understand the data behind their business, and the New York Times is no exception. Chris Wiggins, a theoretical physicist and expert in machine learning, is the chief data scientist at the Times, and he will tell us how he is trying to help the paper collect and understand the data that will shape its future as a newspaper in the digital age.

    Speaker

    Chris Wiggins — Chief Data Scientist, The New York Times

    Moderated by

    Derrick Harris — Senior Writer, Gigaom

    About the Speaker

    Chief Data Scientist

    Chris Wiggins is an associate professor of applied mathematics at Columbia University as well as Chief Data Scientist at the New York Times. More…

    About the Moderator

    Gigaom
    Senior Writer

    Derrick has been a technology journalist since 2003 and has been covering cloud computing, big data and other emerging IT trends for Gigaom since 2009. He has written the words “cloud” and “Hadoop” possibly more than any other person on More…