Mark Bolgiano

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ABOUT MARK BOLGIANO

I\'m a data scientist who has spent most of my professional career using data to solve human problems in a consultative chief technologist (CIO) role. I\'m also a lifelong coder and learner with a nose for emerging technologies that show promise.I led a small nonprofit and large crowd-sourced project to create a element digital taxonomy for US GAAP accounting rules known as XBRL, now required for all public company SEC financial disclosures. Since then, I\'ve been in a consulting data scientist role, helping institutions (Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Council on Foundations, AARP, Society for Human Resource Management) shape strategies, design and build solutions for acquiring, curating, analyzing, and visualizing data to gain business insight.These experiences led me to the conclusion that the sudden abundance and availability of data of unprecedented size and in unprecedented numbers wasn\'t having the impact I expected. Having devoted a career to addressing infrastructure, data models, and interface design as factors that limit the performance of data assets, I came to the realization that data utilization and benefits are limited by education, and the low rate of data literacy among the general population, across all domains.I\'ve been thinking about this for a long time, and am very happy to get a chance to define the future a little bit, one more time, by addressing this limiting factor.Specialties: technology and data strategyData science, statistics, and data journalism Machine learning and natural language processingOpen source, open government, and market transparencyData standards and standards governanceNon-profit management and public-private partnershipsReference data and master data managementEnterprise and solution architecture Education, research and innovation