GCS is pleased to introduce the inaugural event in the Big Data Lecture Series Sponsored by GCS. Dan Wagner, CEO and Founder of Civis Analytics will present "Big Data in Electoral Politics and Beyond: Revealing the Science of Political Science," on February 24 at the University of Montana.

In 2012, Dan Wagner and his team of Big Data scientists revolutionized electoral politics by applying Big Data technology to the Obama re-election campaign. Rather than focus solely on large demographic blocks, Wagner developed new analytical tools that mined massive electoral and social media data sets to identify likely Obama voters. They pioneered Big Data methods and techniques to determine individual voter preference at a level of detail never seen before in a national campaign, feeding predictive models to determine voter outcome.

Today, Dan Wagner's company, Civis Analytics, is applying many of these same complex processes to glean valuable insights from Big Data. Please join us as he describes how Big Data analytics are being deployed to benefit government, corporations, academia and politics.

"Big Data in Electoral Politics and Beyond" is free and open to the public on a first come, first seated basis on Monday, February 24, 2014. Doors open at 6:30 pm for the lecture which begins at 7 pm in the University of Montana's Montana Theatre.

The Big Data Lecture Series is proudly sponsored by GCS, an internationally recognized leader in Big Data geoanalytical solutions, headquartered in Missoula.