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big data as a tool
Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with John Plavan, CEO of EarthRisk (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: Is there anything else you would like to discuss? John Plavan: The main thing I want to address is that we are not a big data company, but we benefit from big data processes. This kind of [technology] has a huge economic and human benefit that comes from being able to quantify relationships
Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with John Plavan, CEO of EarthRisk (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: Could you take us through a couple of use cases of how your customers use your product? John Plavan: The easiest one to explain is last winter, because it was such an extremely warm one. I think it was the warmest winter on record in the U.S.* Going into the winter, around October,
Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with John Plavan, CEO of EarthRisk (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: In terms of the heuristics you use to make the correlations, what is involved in that? John Plavan: We use machine learning, generic algorithms, network techniques, and basic statistical techniques. It depends on the type of data and how we have quantified it. We use a rotated empirical orthogonal function to define an
Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with John Plavan, CEO of EarthRisk (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: Let’s get down to the specifics of what you are selling to these energy traders. John Plavan: We sell subscriptions to a software as a service web-delivered product that enables our clients to identify extreme risks for extreme heat or extreme cold events. They use that information as an input in their energy
Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with John Plavan, CEO of EarthRisk (Part 1)
John Plavan is the CEO, cofounder, and chariman of EarthRisk Technologies, a company that uses big data tools to create weather forecasts, especially in the fields of high and low temperatures. The special thing about EarthRisk systems is that they can create forecasts up to 30 or 40 days prior to any respective event, far
