Data: The new oil/gold/sliced bread

A slightly amended version of the openly available Bettakultcha presentation. This was given at the Leeds Digital Lunch on Data.

Transcript

1. Data.! The new
 oil/gold/sliced bread?
2. The structuring of information has always been around us.
3. Data isn’t just stored in databases and spreadsheets.
4. Moore’s Law, illustrated by evolving data storage formats.
5. Now: We have “the cloud”.
6. How would you rate Frozen?! ! Reviews: Data you choose to create.
7. Mobile phones are data enablers, even passively.
8. Big data.
9. 18 May 2012. Facebook’s IPO.! In the listing they stated they stored an average of 111 megabytes of photos and videos per user.! They had 845 million users.
10. 93,795,000,000,000 megabytes ! ! equals! 87,353.4 petabytes ! ! equals! 0.083 zettabytes
11. 2012
 2.8 zettabytes of data
 was generated.
 Prediction for 2015
 At least double that:
 5.6 zettabytes.! Source: IDC/MIT
13. Volume. Velocity. Veracity.
14. Open data.
15. A piece of data is open
 if anyone is free to! ! ! use,! ! ! reuse, and! ! ! redistribute it.
16. The concept of open data goes back as far as 1957 with the establishment of the World Data Center system.! ! (This predates the existence of the internet, but not machines that can record.)
17. Open data
 and
 openness.
18. Privacy.
19. Do we need all this data?
20. Data is the past.! Data is the future.
21. Data needs people.
22. Data for good.
23. Throw data
 out there.
24. Open data ! ! plus! Big data ! ! plus! A need to solve and understand
25. Large hadron collider.
26. www.studioofthings.com