Big data in the service of reliable news
06-19, 14:50–15:10 (Europe/Berlin), Frannz Salon

Data vs. Fake news : using available data to offer a critical view of the world


Brandolini's law states that debunking misinformation consumes more energy than spreading it.
With tools that organize, transform and present data we can reduce this amount of energy and provide the tools to apprehend the world in a skeptical way as an alternative to short messages on social-media or re-interpreted news headlines.
These tools need to enquire a large base of data and to select heterogeneous sources of information.
The main challenge leans in the ability to harvest, aggregate and synthetically present the emerging facts.

Radu provides Consulting Services as Solutions Architect at Adelean. He handles projects around Elasticsearch and Adelean’s A2 search technology. He oversees the integration and evolution of search engines within large e-commerce platforms, marketplaces or organizations' data lakes. Prior to joining Adelean, Radu acquired a solid experience in Web archiving, operating large scale crawling systems in the context of several European research projects. He holds a PhD in Computer Science and a MSc in Distributed Systems.

Java developper for almost 20 years, I also look after various fields like DevOps or big data.
I work at Adelean, a french company specialized in search engines.
And when I'm not working, I like coding and testing new stuff.