Surfing the Data Flow
Dr Paul Miller
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we use language of catastrophe...
“Flood”
“Data Deluge”
Delusions of control
“Information Overload”
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Cnut knew trying to control the tide was silly
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We try to control - even move
assets above rising water
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Attitude wrong; We can’t win.
Maybe we shouldn’t WANT to.
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why not use language of opportunity?
“data-driven organisations
look at big data as a
solution, not a problem”
Release 2.0, February 2009
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Massively Parallel Processing (MPP)
Column stores
MapReduce/ Hadoop
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emerging from lots of places, and being combined
More data, faster...
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quantity, nature, expectations...

Real-Time Web
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available to all with APIs
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Sensor Web - 15 Petabytes per year ?
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Sensor Web - 15 Petabytes per year ?
15,000,000,000,000,000
125,000 iPods
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Sensor Web
Image © Apple
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re-imagining the Data Web
“Stop hugging
your data”
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, 2009
http://tr.im/timblvideo
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simple principles, pragmatically applied
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“the Web done
right”
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, 2008
reaches back to
TimBL’s original
vision of the
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Read/Write Web

Data doesn’t need Hans Brinker
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cut costs, mass produce, standardise -
create opportunities for growth
Data as Commodity
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“from Data Centre
to data-centric”
JP Rangaswami, 2009
data is a cost
we treat all data as Core and confidential
most actually Context and a commodity
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Think Different!

‘The Data Exhaust’
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common to try to copyright data… or to
use a CC license to ‘do the right thing’.
Copyright does not apply, and as CC based
on copyright, CC doesn’t work either.
X
©
does not apply
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Image for illustrative purposes.
I am not applying a CC0 license
to this presentation.
Contract Law works… or initiatives opendatacommons.org
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such as CC0 and Open Data Commons. wiki.creativecommons.org/CCZero

What can we do?
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Let’s not try to control the tide...
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Raw Data, Now!
Appropriately licensed
and Linkable
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Learn from MapReduce/ Hadoop, and
Google, and Twitter, and Facebook...
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Don’t build for them...
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Build for THEM!
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