Lukas Biewald
Co-founder and CEO
Lukas Biewald is the co-founder and CEO of CrowdFlower. As a former data scientist, Lukas was frustrated by the amount of time he had to spend cleaning and labeling data instead of actually using it to solve business problems, leading him to co-found CrowdFlower in 2009. Today, the CrowdFlower platform connects over 5 million data enrichers in almost every country who work around the clock to provide companies with clean and actionable data.
Lukas graduated from Stanford University with a BS in Mathematics and an MS in Computer Science. Lukas is also an expert-level Go player.
The opinions expressed in this blog are those of Lukas Biewald and do not necessarily represent those of IDG Communications, Inc., its parent, subsidiary or affiliated companies.
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How to hire data engineers
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The data science ecosystem, part 3: Data applications
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The data science ecosystem part 2: Data wrangling
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