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title: "Conference Fosters Diverse Community Around Data"
summary: |-
  The DataGotham 2013 conference, now in its second year, brought together data-driven thinkers from an impressively broad range of fields, carrying an almost equally wide array of titles.
date: "2013-09-25"
issues: ["Internet"]
authors: ["Travis Korte"]
content_type: "Op-Eds & Contributed Articles"
canonical_url: "https://itif.org/publications/2013/09/25/conference-fosters-diverse-community-around-data/"
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# Conference Fosters Diverse Community Around Data

This September, a group of New York data scientists convened *DataGotham 2013*, billed as a "celebration of the NYC data community," at the New York Academy of Medicine on the Upper East Side. The event, now in its second year, brought together data-driven thinkers from an impressively broad range of fields, carrying an almost equally wide array of titles.



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*Source: Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF)*
*URL: https://itif.org/publications/2013/09/25/conference-fosters-diverse-community-around-data/*