BDW13ATL: Can Big Data Mitigate Threats?

The Continuing Adventures of a Non-techie Writer Live Blogging Technology...

Big Data Week: Atlanta
Can Big Data Mitigate Threats to Public Safety and Security?

From what I do know about Big Data, this will be one of the most intriguing sessions of the week, sure to be of interest to Big Data techies and non-techies alike. Big Data's role in protecting us from another recession (fraud detection), petty crime, gang violence and more...international terrorism & domestic events like the Boston Marathon Bombing: Surveillance, Protection, Deterrence & Aftermath of crisis. (Spooky stuff)

The Future with Big Data: Atlanta Kickoff Event

See the prelim info: Live Blogging Adventures: Big Data Week.



Let's make it clear: I am a Lifestyle, Humor & Book Reviews/Literary Rebel writer. My Live Blogging and most-recent reporting experience for Patch Media has been primarily in Education & Civic Issues. I am a non-techie girl, living in a very tech-geeky world, between my husband, the CTO, and our very tech-savvy three children (ages 18, 15 & 12).

So here goes Big Data Week:Atlanta and The Rebel Housewife® (remember: non-techie) Live Blogging Technology for the first time (unless you count the Rebel Review - Kindle: Love or Hate?).

[P.S. I don't know why the early blog-entry tags carry my usual "atlantaparent" screen name, and why I couldn't go back and change it, but there you go. Sorry.]

APS Grady HS Community Mtg After School Shooting - February 28, 2013

For more information about the school shooting at Grady High School in Atlanta on February 27, 2013, please see:

APS Calls Thursday Grady Meeting to Talk School Safety
Midtown Patch - 02/27/2013

I also want to note that the Grady High School award-winning student newspaper, The Southerner, provided excellent coverage on The Grady Southerner Facebook Page as events unfolded yesterday, including accurate information, details and pictures. The student coverage was a great source of reassurance and relief to parents on the outside and informed the community about what was happening on the locked-down campus.

I will be LIVE BLOGGING the APS Grady HS Community Meeting tonight (2/28/2013), beginning at 6:30 p.m. Join me here live tonight or for the re-cap tomorrow in Midtown Patch/Patch Media.

CINS APS State of the Grady Cluster Meeting - 2/7/2013

Another could-be-really-interesting meeting with Atlanta Public Schools at Grady High School tonight (February 7, 2013), live blogging for Midtown Patch/Patch Media:

Atlanta Public Schools Safety Forum at Grady High School

It has been a while since I have LIVE Blogged with CoverItLive, and I am not sure what to expect at the Atlanta Public Schools Safety Forum at Grady High School this evening, but I have agreed to attend and take notes for Midtown Patch, so here it is!
Join me at 6:00 p.m. tonight (Wednesday, January 9, 2013):