Presentation given to a creative industries SME workshop on the 2nd May 2013

1. Julian Tait
@julianlstar
Opportunities in Data
Cluster2020 - 2nd May 2013

2. www.emoto2012.org
Although known for being a festival,
FutureEverything runs year round innovation
projects. These look at the impact of technology on
society, development of tech enabled cities and
data projects - especially open data

3. "Open data is changing the world - people and
businesses, governments and cities are putting
increasing amounts of their data online free for
reuse using open standards. Just as the original
Web of documents changed the way we live so too
will the Web of Linked Data. Manchester can be in
the vanguard of a new breed of 21st century city -
cities which make their data freely available
providing a base for innovation and the creation of
new kinds of social and economic value."
Prof. Nigel Shadbolt - Open Data Institute
Co-instigator of data.gov.uk

4. There are many layers within the city and data is
one of them. City government produces huge
amounts of data in delivery of its task. This data is
often hidden but when found can be reused,
remixed and repurposed - if available as open data
DEFRA - Noise Map of Manchester

5. As society becomes more networked and
technologised it creates a demand for the freeflow
of data. The demand for data driven services
creates pressure on closed data environments to
open up. It’s hard to imagine that this entropic
process would reverse.

6. To say that ‘there’s gold in them there hills’ is an
understatement. It is just finding it. Using NHS
prescription data, the Prescribing Analytics team
identified potential savings of £200 million to the
NHS by using generic statins

7. There are a number of open data catalogues now
available with www.datacatalogs.org a good place
to start looking. These range from international
through national such as www.data.gov.uk regi
onal and organistional

8. DataGM is an example of a regional datastore. Its
purpose is to collect and aggregate data from a
variety of sources within Greater Manchester

9. Data Opportunities 1
Data intermediaries - Information Design and
interpretation

10. Underlying data can be complex. Information
designers, data visualisers and journalists are some
of the people who can help people understand the
underlying data and if need be, take action.

11. From spending data...

12. Through to flight patterns
Flight Patterns - Aaron Koblin

13. Data Opportunities 2
An art dealer has identified that people are more
likely to buy art when they move into a new
property

14. The UK’s Land Registry is a comprehensive
database of property transactions in the UK. You
can download monthly datasets of all registered
house transactions.

15. Using tools such as Open Refine you can analyse
and ‘facet’ data enabling you to extract the relevant
information for your needs

16. Other datasets can help you better understand the
characteristics of a particular area, allowing you to
make more informed decisions

17. Data Opportunities 3
An AV hire has been approached by a promoter to
supply equipment for a forthcoming tour

18. Tools such as DueDil allow you to look at the
integrity of companies that you do, or about to do
business with. Although not all the information is
free, it is a relatively quick way of understanding a
companies trading history and the previous
activities of it’s directors

19. Diligence might also allow you to make informed
decisions as to where you locate your business.
www.police.uk publishes and maps crime data

20. Data Opportunities 4
A venue wants to encourage footfall by feeding
location specific information to potential customers

21. There are various ways that the location of a
website user can be useful and made into a
business opportunity.
A venue might increase footfall if it could
automatically provide timely travel information from
user location to the venue

22. For Greater Manchester, scheduling data is readily
available. Although it takes a degree of skill to
integrate this into an online offering, the ability to
enable people to make on the spot decisions is
advantageous

23. Data Opportunities 5
A production company wants to experiment in
producing personalised media content

24. www.futurebroadcasts.com
Although experimental, Breaking Out by the BBC
offers a glimpse of what is achievable through the
personalisation of narrative through data. It
geolocates a listener and then inserts relevant cues
into the narrative.

25. Thank You
Julian@futureeverything.org