Talk by Peter Wells about the UK government cat register and how he used it make terrible jokes, put more cats on the web and think about the future of data. https://medium.com/@peterkwells/gov-cats-f143d4a7407b#.jsfmpqlen

1. Gov cats.
@peterkwells
@odihq
#ODIFridays

2. Gov cats.
by Pete Souza, White House Photographer (CC BY 1.0)

3. 3:15 Friday afternoon.

4. My cat is sad.

5. Choose optimism.

6. It’s Friday, I’m in data.

7. https://octopub.io/

8. Wrong data.

9. Finding Nemo.
Source:http://www.purr-n-fur.org.uk/famous/humphrey.html#nemo

10. Close to me.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4143423.stm

11. In between date standards.

13. It’s not you, they’re (potential)
users.

14. https://bothan.io/

15. Pictures of heroku.

16. Zap! Zap! Zap!!!

17. Source:https://xkcd.com/353/ CC-BY-NC 2.5

18. I’m lost in a
forest.

19. Not alone.

20. One imaginary data result.

21. Two real zaps.

22. Never enough.
https://www.flickr.com/search/?text=lots%20of%20cats&license=2%2C3%2C4%2C5%2C6%2C9

23. Data has uncertainty.

24. The cat..er..dashboard.

26. Transparency?
Accountability?
Public services?
Business innovation?

27. Web of cats ≈ web of data.

28. Unlock £trillions & impact everyone
Link insight from countries, millions of
companies, billions of people and things
Machine-readable data, sensors, and the internet of everything
A robust data infrastructure will enable open innovation at web-scale
What is the future of
the web of data?
25 years of the web
of documents

29. Age of data abundance.

30. Sam the catflickr user panli54 CC-BY-2.0
Just like heaven?

31. Be fearless.
Be open.

32. Explore.
Experiment.
Learn by doing.

33. Purrsonal data.
(sorry.)

34. BBC video
clips
Eyescans
(somewhere here..)
Current cat location Cat job

35. Accuracy?

36. Accuracy?

37. Accuracy?

38. Accuracy?
https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2012/jan/12/uk-government-properties-mapped

39. Accuracy?

40. Paul Downey CC-BY-NC 2.0

41. Lullaby.
Image by Pat Dillon, CC-BY-2.0.

42. Gov cats.
@peterkwells
@odihq
#ODIFridays