Five minutes. 15 seconds per slide. Trying to explain, simply, big data and open data, the differences, and why we should try to embrace them.

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

12. Open data.

13. A piece of data is open
if anyone is free to!
! ! use,!
! ! reuse, and!
! ! redistribute it.

14. 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.)

15. Open data
and
openness.

16. Privacy.

17. Do we need all
this data?

18. Data is the past.!
Data is the future.

19. Open data
! ! plus!
Big data
! ! plus!
A need to solve and understand

20. Large hadron collider.

21. www.studioofthings.com