This document discusses how open data and linked open data can be harnessed to improve decision making. It provides examples of open data in various domains like healthcare, agriculture, and cities. Open data refers to publicly available data that can be accessed and shared by anyone. Linked open data connects different datasets to provide context. The document outlines strategies for utilizing open data clouds and linked open data through approaches like data harvesting, analytics, and building recommendation engines. Overall, the key message is that open data and linked open data technologies can power innovation and help solve problems in various industries like healthcare and agriculture.

1. Harnessing the Power
of Linked Open Data Cloud
for better Decision Making

2. About Us
Umesh Kanade
General Manager,
Harbinger Systems
Asheesh Choksi
Solutions Architect,
Harbinger Systems
Services
Product Engineering Consulting UI/UX
Advance Testing
DevOps &
Professional Services
Innovation as
a Service

3. What is open data
“Open data is data that anyone can access, use and
share” - by Open Data Institute
• Machine Readable
• Easy to Access and Use
• Non-Proprietary
• No Restrictive License
• No Cost

4. Making Open Data Work
Source: Cloudtweaks.com

5. 5 Stars of Open Data
Make your Data available on the Web
Make it available as Structured data
Use non-proprietary format
Use URLs to identify things
Link your data to other datasets to provide context

6. Open Data Cloud
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linked_open_data

7. Linked Open Data in Life sciences
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linked_open_data

8. LinkedCT and Drug Bank
• 5 Gigabytes of data
• 25 million triples
• 7,700 generic drug entries
Retrieve diseases and
genes associated with
drugs tested in
clinical trials where
Prostate Cancer was
studied
Retrieve drug-drug
interactions for
Aspirin dosage for
patient taking
Warfarin
Link
LinkedCT Drug Bank

9. Who is Using Open Data
www.opendata500.com

10. Open Data in Action #1
• Climate Corp
• Helping farmers
with field-level
insights
• Linking datasets of
terrain, weather, soil
• Increased yield and
profitability by 20-
30%
Source: Climate Fieldview, apple store, www.climate.com

11. Open Data in Action #2
• SeeClickFix
• Making cities better
• Open 311 service
• Data source in XML,
RSS & JSON
• Creative Commons
Noncommercial
• Won ‘Code for
America’ Award
recently
Source: SeeClickFix, app store, seeclickfix.com

12. Open Data in Healthcare
and Opportunities for Innovation

13. 1. Provide Cost Comparison
Chinese
Hospital
California
Pacific Med
Ctr
Pacifc
campus
San
Francisco
Gen
Hospital
St. Mary
Med Ctr,
San
Francisco
Santa Clara
Velley Med
Ctr
O'Connor
Hospital
Regional
Medical of
San Jose
Lucile
Salter
Children
Hosp at
Stanford
63,517
77,377
124,502 127,812
80,201
101,056
197,664
276,728
Average cost (by BCBS): $31,124
Average Charges for
total Knee Replacement
San Francisco Santa Clara
http://gis.oshpd.ca.gov/atlas/topics/financial/common_surgery

14. 2. GIS based healthcare maps

15. 3. Medicine Prescription checks
Doctor can send
Medicine
prescriptions
http://ontime.care
Patient can reach
doctor

16. 4. Engaging people
•Events and Announcements
•Patient Education
Communication
•Bi-directional Communication
•Real-time Interactivity
Collaborate
•Self-management
Empowerment

17. 5. Real time analytics for Providers
• Body temperature not stable
• Low Blood pressure
• High Breathing and Pulse rate
• Muscle hardening
• No urination for long times
Detecting / Predicting
Post Operative Infection
A Patient not responding appropriately
can go unnoticed by humans.
Raising early alerts can save lives.

18. 6. Analytics for Patients
Personalized Health Dashboard
Activity Weight
Cholesterol Sugar
• Choice of clinical procedures & tests
• Patient education
• Performing Adaptive analytics over the
Predictive analytics

19. 7. Recommendation Engines
B. Access the Open data to detect early problems & recommend
• Diet, Exercises or need to visit relevant specialists
• Recommend a personalized wellness plan
A. Accessing Personal data on habits and behaviors
• Smoking and Alcohol habits
• Poor sleep patterns / Activity levels
• Unhealthy meals / junk food
• Problems, Medications and Allergies

20. Solutions to exploit
Open Data

21. Intents
High Level Reasoning
Why
What
When /How
Where
socrata data.gov dbpedia Sanfrancisco…
Business Goals,
Requirements &
Action Plan
Planning Innovation

22. Data
Harvesting
Crawling
&
Querying
Scraping
&
Cleaning Validation
&
Modeling
Action Plan
Open Data Cloud
Probabilistic
Reasoning
Machine
Learning
Data
Analytics
Implementation
 Demographics
 Interests
 Activities
 Networks
 Recommendation Engine
 Social Analytic Framework
 Dashboards
 APIs
User Data

23. Summary
Smart
Innovation
Big Data
and
Analytics
Web
Technologies
Mobile devices
Open Data
Internet of Things

24. Q & A

25. Thank You!
Visit Harbinger Systems at Booth #221
www.harbinger-systems.com
hsinfo@harbingergroup.com
Nov 3-5, 2015
Santa Clara, CA
Harnessing Power of Linked Open Data – Umesh Kanade, Asheesh Choksi, Harbinger Systems #40