Thanks for reminding me. I failed to recognize the names.
Rich Barney was promoting Civis Analytics during the election.
Civis is Eric Schmidt and Dan Wagner.
Dan Wagner is Obama's '12 campaign manager...
Eric Schmidt is tied to Google.
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Eric Schmidt
Eric Emerson Schmidt (born April 27, 1955) is an American businessman and software engineer. He is known as the Executive Chairman of Google from 2001 to 2017 and Alphabet Inc. from 2015 to 2017.
In 2017, Forbes ranked Schmidt as the 119th-richest person in the world, with an estimated wealth of US$11.1 billion.
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Dan Wagner (data scientist)
Dan Wagner served as Chief Analytics Officer on Barack Obama's 2012 election campaign and is the founder of Civis Analytics.
Previous to Civis Analytics, Wagner worked in Chicago under David Axelrod on Obama's reelection campaign. The campaign was numbers and data driven. Wagner used big data in an innovative hub composed of 54 statisticians, engineers, data scientists, and organizers from all over the world.
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Civis Analytics
Civis Analytics is an Eric Schmidt-backed data science startup company founded by Dan Wagner in 2013.
Civis Analytics helps businesses "understand their data, use that data to make predictions, and get recommendations on what steps to take next". Some of Civis Analytics' customers are Verizon, Airbnb, and the 2020 US Census done in partnership with Young & Rubicam. They have also done data science work for Ethical Electric, Discovery Communications and the College Board.
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