Sean Gorman’s love of big data sets almost got him into trouble with the government early on when he and school colleagues began mapping the geography of the web and discovered interesting tidbits such as routing vulnerabilities for the NYSE. While he's no longer in trouble with the government he is still fascinated by big data and mapping.
Gorman announced GeoCommons, a crowdsourced repository of large structured datasets, at the Where 2.0 conference last year, and this year he describes how the first attempt failed and how the problem was solved. He moves to a discussion and demonstration of Finder!, the new product that opens the world’s data in a browser.
Gorman ends the talk with his vision for data federated by all companies who are bringing geo-content to the web. In this ecosystem of federated geo-content, a user can take a URL from one source and map it with a structured data set from another source; thus creating semantic meaning that didn’t exist before. He hopes that this integration of data will help to solve problems.
Sean P. Gorman, PhD, is Chief Executive Officer, Founder and Member of the FortiusOne Board of Directors. Sean Gorman founded FortiusOne in 2005 to bring advanced geospatial technologies to market. Dr. Gorman is a recognized expert in geospatial analysis and visualization. He has been featured around the world in media such as, Wired, Der Spiegel, ABC, Washington Post, Business 2.0 and CNN, and his expertise is sought after by organizations such as, the Critical Infrastructure Task Force and the Homeland Security Advisory Council. Dr. Gorman brings over 10 years of experience at the forefront of the geospatial revolution as a researcher, practitioner, and entrepreneur to FortiusOne. Prior to FortiusOne, Dr. Gorman served as VP of R&D for GeoTel, a telecommunications mapping company, and Director of Strategy for iXOL, a Washington D.C. based incubator. Dr. Gorman received his PhD from George Mason University as the Provost’s High Potential Research Candidate and Fisher Prize recipient.
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