thinkdata
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A presentation about the general use of data. prepared by @geo_will of sparkgeo.com for the digitalksnorth.ca conferenceTRANSCRIPT
think data
Will Cadell> sparkgeo.com
Or, “65 pictures of your cat”
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“For every two degrees the temperature goes up, check-ins at ice cream shops go up by 2%.” – Andrew Hogue, Foursquare
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My name is Will and I have a data problem
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sparkgeo is a technology company
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sparkgeo is a data company
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DATA!
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yours is a data company
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what is data?
why should you care?
how you can think data?
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Datafacts and statistics collected together for
reference or analysis.
Datuma piece of information.
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Approximately 90% of the data in the world has been created in the last two years
this growth is accelerating
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Microsoft has a million servers
Google is estimated to have 900,000
Facebook has “hundreds of thousands”
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“Every day, three times per second, we produce the equivalent of the amount of data that the Library of Congress has in its entire print collection, right?
But most of it is like cat videos on YouTube or 13-year-olds exchanging text messages about the next Twilight movie.” – Nate Silver
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There are estimated to be 14,308,667,560 pictures of cats on the internet
There are only thought to be 220,000,000 domestic cats in the world
So, every cat has had 65 pictures of it posted on the web? Right?
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WHAT!?
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Data is not information
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big data?
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Big Data threatens to create a deep divide between the have-datas and the have-no-
datas, with big corporations gaining advantage by crunching the numbers and
small firms left to stumble in the dark.http://blogs.hbr.org/2013/12/small-businesses-need-big-data-too/
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data science?
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“Data really powers everything that we do.” – Jeff Weiner, LinkedIn
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you use data already
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you might even store some of that data
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www.PredPol.com
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www.Ayogo.com
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Richie bros.
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“Data are becoming the new raw material of business” – Craig Mundie, Microsoft
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Measure to Manage
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Market Analysis
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Augment
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Data Company
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And here is a picture of a cat I found on
the internet