Friday 6 March 2015

Big Data time

Been a while since my last post I know however I'm going to slowly get back into this. My recent venture back into the world of finance has given me much time to experience the highs and lows of what data can do to help improve the way we live, work and even play. There's a great video from TED recently about big data and the way it can help everyday citizens come up with solutions to what would otherwise have been very much ignored problems. Data and making it easy to access, use and understand leads to better story telling capabilities and whether it be for civic duties or for monetary purposes there is much that can be done to find these advantages. Anyway, check out this video from Ben Wellington - and maybe even check out your local open data website or statistic agency. There's information out there that can help you - you've just got to do a bit of digging.