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Data Dynamite: how liberating information will transform our world
Data is compiled from every aspect of our lives. Yet, for too long, policies and technical obstacles kept you and me from access to it. Now, data can be shared instantly as it is gathered, but too many still act as if the old rules of data scarcity still prevail. When data is made available to all who need it and on a real-time basis, it becomes valuable information. How valuable? Think how the U.S.’s decision to allow free access to Global Positioning System data started a global location- based services industry creating billions of dollars of wealth and transforming our lives. Data Dynamite shows how a combination of proven tools let us “tag” data with information that is permanently attached to it, then lets the data be transmitted instantly wherever we insert those same tags. It describes new tools that let us analyze data collaboratively and visualizations that make it come alive. The book shows how the results of these steps can transform every aspect of our
238 pages, Paperback
First published June 5, 2011
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June 25, 2014
This guy is a raving genius! What can I say?
Seriously, I think my message, and the examples, are as relevant as three years ago. While in part about the big data transformation, it's much more about a profound attitudinal shift: away from profiting from proprietary information, a zero-sum game, to one where you must always ask, "who else could benefit from this information?" That's a really tough shift to make, especially for senior managers, who have always controlled the flow of information.
It was in researching this book that I first came across the Internet of Things, my current preoccupation. Nowhere is the question of "who else could benefit from this information?" so important, because it is precisely through mashing up data from a variety of IoT devices that we will realize the greatest economic and social benefits.
Three years later, it is still government agencies, especially cities such as NYC, San Francisco, and the place it all started, Washington, DC, that are in the lead in sharing data IN REAL TIME, and companies are still laggards.
Still proud of this book. Still recommend that you read it!
Seriously, I think my message, and the examples, are as relevant as three years ago. While in part about the big data transformation, it's much more about a profound attitudinal shift: away from profiting from proprietary information, a zero-sum game, to one where you must always ask, "who else could benefit from this information?" That's a really tough shift to make, especially for senior managers, who have always controlled the flow of information.
It was in researching this book that I first came across the Internet of Things, my current preoccupation. Nowhere is the question of "who else could benefit from this information?" so important, because it is precisely through mashing up data from a variety of IoT devices that we will realize the greatest economic and social benefits.
Three years later, it is still government agencies, especially cities such as NYC, San Francisco, and the place it all started, Washington, DC, that are in the lead in sharing data IN REAL TIME, and companies are still laggards.
Still proud of this book. Still recommend that you read it!
February 29, 2012
nice read on open data, thorough but could use a more rigorous understanding of politics of data. But very valuable nonetheless
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