Hi all! I know this is coming to you super late but if you happen to be on campus and are interested in Socrata, e-gov and data use by such please join us at 830 am in MGH 389 THIS MORNING, 27 May *Guest Speaker: **Deep Dhillon / *CTO, Socrata <http://www.socrata.com/> *Deep Dhillon who is the CTO of Socrata. They specialize in open data initiatives for governments, NGOs and other orgs with large amounts of data they want to release to the public. City of Seattle and State of Washington are users of Socrata services. * [image: deep] Deep Dhillon currently serves as CTO of Socrata where he strives to enable more transparent and effective democracies through data. Deep is an accomplished technologist with extensive experience conceptualizing, architecting, and deploying multiple advanced networking applications. He specializes in leading startups and growing companies by developing their data science, distributed computing, and natural language processing capabilities. Before joining Socrata, Deep served as a technology executive for companies such as Alliance Health Network, Evri, Insightful Corporation (now Tibco), and Cantametrix (now Sony). He earned his Master's of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin and holds several patents in natural language processing, search and music analysis technologies. --- *Here are some additional info about Deep and Socrata:* - Video: What is Socrata? <http://www.socrata.com/what-is-socrata/> - Case studies: Socrata customer stories <http://www.socrata.com/customer-stories/> - Video: Understanding Data Using Human Computation and Machine Learning <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ux9T_YXZdYc> - Deep Dhillon (Jan 2015) -