255: Big Data For President - a podcast by Andrew Sorcini

This week, President Obama wins another four years-- what tech aided to win him the election, and what can we look forward to from his tech agenda?, Frankenstorm Sandy gives Instagram growing pains,  Microsoft’s rumored XBOX tablet, and how can we not geek out over the Disney’s purchase of Lucasfilm?

Headlines

• Obama Wins The Election! Here’s His Technology Agenda
  
  
  
  • How Obama's Data Crunchers Helped Him Win
  
  
  
  


• Instagram Launches Web Profiles, Looking Much Like Facebook Timeline
  
  
  
  • 800K #Sandy-grams Showed Systrom Instagram Is “Going To Need To Be A Big Data Co.
  
  
  
  

Audible Book of the Week

• The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail - but Some Don't by Nate Silver

Musical Interlude: Lando's Palace from "The Empire Strikes Back" by John Williams

More Headlines

• Disney buys Lucasfilm for $4.05B including ILM, LucasArts and other tech, Star Wars 7 coming in 2015


• Xbox Surface: Microsoft's 7-inch gaming tablet

Outro: Ewok Celebration from "Return of the Jedi" by John Williams

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Geeks Of Doom’s The Drill Down is a roundtable-style audio podcast where we discuss the most important issues of the week, in tech and on the web and how they affect us all.

Hosts are Geeks of Doom contributor Andrew Sorcini (Mr. BabyMan), VentureBeat editor Devindra Hardawar, marketing research analyst Dwayne De Freitas, and Startup Digest CTO Christopher Burnor. Occasionally joining them is Box.com tech consultant Tosin Onafowokan.

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