Philip (flip) Kromer

Current

• President and Data Farmer at infochimps.org

Education

• Cornell University
• The University of Texas at Austin

Connections

244 connections

Industry

Research

Websites

• My Company
• My Website
• My Blog

Philip (flip) Kromer’s Summary

Make it easy to unify, visualize and explore rich data.

I've started infochimps.org, a website to find any dataset in the world. I'm an experienced web developer (Ruby on Rails, JQuery, etc.) and have a great deal of experience wrangling Big Data -- Hadoop, Mathematica, Semantic Web and all that.

Philip (flip) Kromer’s Specialties:

Computational Physics, Mathematica, Ruby, Hadoop, Big Data

Philip (flip) Kromer’s Experience

• President and Data Farmer

  infochimps.org

  (Internet industry)

  June 2007 — Present (2 years 7 months)

  infochimps.org is a website to find, share or sell any dataset in the world -- a free data commons, coupled to a flat marketplace for bulk data.
  
  My mission is to build tools to organize, explore and comprehend massive information sources.

Philip (flip) Kromer’s Education

• Cornell University

  BA , Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering , 1992 — 1996

  Activities and Societies:

  Cornell University HEV Team

• The University of Texas at Austin

  Physics, Physics Education

  Activities and Societies:

  UT Physics
  UTeach
  Texas Triathletes
  Strangers in the Alps bowling team
  Exploitation Movie Fan Club (XMFC)

Additional Information

Philip (flip) Kromer’s Websites:

• My Company
• My Website
• My Blog

Philip (flip) Kromer’s Interests:

I'm building tools to help organize, explore and connect massive raw information sources.

Philip (flip) Kromer’s Groups:

•    Cornell University Alumni Network
•    KIVA
•    Austin On Rails
•    South By Southwest (SXSW)
•    SXSW Interactive
•    Cornell Club of Austin
•    Semantic Web Austin
•    SxSW Library and Info Professionals
•    Cornell HEV / AXP (Hybrid Electric Vehicle / Automotive X-Prize) Team
•    Hadoop Users
•    WebVisions
•    Cloudera Hadoop Users

Philip (flip) Kromer’s Honors:

2002 and 2007 - #1st place team Wednesday night bowling league.

Philip (flip) Kromer’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• job inquiries
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• business deals
• reference requests
• getting back in touch