Definitely agree. The power is in the small data, the commodity value is in big data. The important picture IMO is the personal control of data, self-advertising and the like.
- Mark On 22 Apr 2013, at 14:23, Rufus Pollock <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All, > > I wanted to let folks know about this post which has just gone up: > > http://blog.okfn.org/2013/04/22/forget-big-data-small-data-is-the-real-revolution/ > > <quote> > There is a lot of talk about “big data” at the moment. For example, > this is Big Data Week, which will see events about big data in dozens > of cities around the world. But the discussions around big data miss a > much bigger and more important picture: the real opportunity is not > big data, but small data. Not centralized “big iron”, but > decentralized data wrangling. Not“one ring to rule them all” but > “small pieces loosely joined”. > </quote> > > Very interested to hear people's thoughts - this will be first in a series. > > Rufus > > _______________________________________________ > okfn-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss > Unsubscribe: http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/options/okfn-discuss _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss Unsubscribe: http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/options/okfn-discuss
