James Cropcho
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James Cropcho was half of a two-person team which found (and helped to remedy) the United States' first wide-scale breach of the secret ballot. He is the creator of Variety (a MongoDB schema analyzer) and he was a contributor to the data visualization tool Plotly. He was briefly an adjunct professor at New York University's ITP (Interactive Telecommunications Program) and was a semi-technical pre-publication reviewer of the New York Times-bestselling book "Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That'll Improve and/or Ruin Everything" by Kelly & Zach Weinersmith, at the behest of the authors. He has appeared on the BBC and NPR, and at Hackers of Planet Earth and a Moth StorySLAM.
James is currently Lead Engineer at an early-stage offensive cybersecurity firm in New York City.
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UFO Databases: A Unique Set of Challenges With a 50-Year History
The first attempt at creating an electronic database of UFO reports predates Arpanet. In this session, I chronicle UFO database design from conception through the present day. Having laid this groundwork, I then propose actionable enhancements to current schemas, as well as sensible augmentations to both formalized and ad hoc data collection procedures.
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