Marcus D. Hanwell

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Marcus D. Hanwell
Rexford, NY

Marcus D. Hanwell | Marcus leads the Open Chemistry project, developing open source tools for chemistry, bioinformatics, and materials science research. He completed an experimental PhD in Physics at the University of Sheffield, a Google Summer of Code developing Avogadro and Kalzium, and a postdoctoral fellowship combining experimental and computational chemistry at the University of Pittsburgh before moving to Kitware in late 2009. He is now a Technical Leader in the Scientific Computing group at Kitware, a member of the Blue Obelisk, blogs, @mhanwell on Twitter and is active on Google+. He is passionate about open science, open source and making sense of increasingly large scientific data to understand the world around us.

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Great interview, I hadn't considered how Untappd tapped open source but it is a fun app I use from time to time. It is great to see more businesses opening up large portions of what they develop, is the data on all the beers openly licensed (or have you considered opening it)? It would make a great data set, I will certainly try to explore the APIs as I am interested in what is exposed.

I remember doing an OpenStreetmap day with the creators 8-10 years ago, back when no one was sure it would catch on. Lot's of fun, and it can be quite addictive too. The technology has moved on a lot since then, and it is amazing to see what has been achieved! PredictionIO looks really interesting too, great write up!