Kris Hammond, co-founder and CTO of Narrative Science and Professor of EECS, was the featured presenter at The Future of Story Telling in NY on October 5th. Watch the short film, "Automated Storytelling: Turning Numbers Into Narrative for an Audience of One."Film synopsis: We live in the era of Big Data. Never in modern human history have companies and individuals had more (and more complex and reliable) numbers, statistics, and metrics at their disposal: from box scores to earnings reports to housing prices to placement-test results, we are at sea in an ocean of numbers and awash in spreadsheets. As artificial-intelligence pioneer Kris Hammond explains in this film, the great challenge in the Big Data era is understanding the stories those numbers tell and, just as important, connecting the right people with the right stories. Read more
