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People Are Dying To Get
The Data
Pete Forde
@peteforde
BuzzData
Hacker Tourist
Value of Data
Rob McEwen
SCREWED
Control Language
Control Opinion
Control History
Control History
180X population
180X population... in 6 years
Pre-Europe: 300,0001870: less than 30,000
Corruption
Taxation
Confiscation
Crime
Vigilantism
Anti-Immigrant Laws
William Randolph Hearst
Citizen Kane
HEARST CORPORATIONResponsible for 8 out of 10
superfund sites
HEARST CORPORATIONManufactured the Spanish
American War
“You furnish the pictures,
and I’ll furnish the war.”
IT GETS BETTER!!!
1893: Chicago World’s Fair
Skyscrapers
Vertical Mines
WAKE UP
DATA +NARRATIVE
TRUTH
Beautiful, but empty.
All dashboards should be newsfeeds
NEWSFEEDS > DASHBOARDS
Digital Permanence
SnapChat:self-destructing data
“Individuals and societies need the ability to forget to
move forward.”
Data has a very short shelf-life.
We lack real data infrastructure.
Integrity
Age
Version Control
Provenance
Change Tracking
Licence
Usage Restrictions
Opportunity
Quantified Self
FitBit
Pebble
NinjaBlocks
Tiny Printer
LIFX
Lockitron
Car App Developers
In-car Apps
Consume ExternalData Services
Respond toExternal Events
Tesla SSupercharger Network
Self-driving carsGraphene capacitors
What should you do?
Solutions lookingfor problems to solve
Solve Real Problems
Customer Development
Data appvisibility sucks
Data App Store?
Apps need to bediscoverable
Integrated withthe OS
iOS PassportAndroid Tiles
Stop building data repositories
Not a real problem.
Wishlist!
Task Division
Make it easier for non-technical people to contribute!
Some of the best datasets are created by “normal people”.
TTC wanted $50,000 for their transit route data.
MyTTC.ca crowd-sourcedbetter data than the TTC had
themselves.
SurveyMonkey + Access = ?
Dataset collection is a great way to involve non-technical people in
important projects.
Data business incubator in Canada
“Apps for Canada”
The future might not suck.
Thank you.
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