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Big Data and what it could...
or should mean for the Future
of Media and Journalism

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“Big Data is high-volume, high-velocity and high-
variety information assets that demand cost-effective,
innovative forms of information processing for
enhanced insight and decision making” *Gartner
Streams. Cloud. Now. We. Data (Kevin Kelly)

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The digital default is coming

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Big Data: some relevant facts & stats

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Rise of data-driven business models

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Paying with Data | Privacy | Attention

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Disruption ☯ Opportunity

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Data. Input. Ideas. Information
1 - 2 - 4 - 8 - 1 6 - 3 2 - 6 4 - 1 2 8
“We will be online all the time in virtual / augmented reality. We won’t
be looking at devices such as tablets and phones. Rather, computer
displays will be fully integrated with real reality” (Ray Kurzweil)

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Disruptions and Opportunities for Data Journalism

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Smart-everything: the IoT, M2M

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‘Finding relevant stuff’ might be a good robot job - to a point

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“Search engines won’t wait for you to ask for information.
They will know you like a friend, aware of your concerns and
interests at a detailed level” Ray Kurzweil

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Journalism: making sense of
exponential data, for linear humans:)

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Knowledge. Wisdom. Learnings. Relevance. Depth.
http://pinterest.com/pin/197876977350036245/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIKW_Pyramid

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Big Data-fuels Cross-Media Story Telling
Big Data-fuels Vizuality. Immersion.

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Mobile devices are becoming our external brains

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‘External Brains’ may become good targets for ads, too:)
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/03/this-is-the-scariest-statistic-about-the-newspaper-business-today/274125/

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Massive Human - Machine /AI Interface (R)Evolution

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The 3 spheres of data: shift towards anticipation
Volunteered InferredObserved

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A total on-demand, serendipity-free, self-
controlled future will not be human enough

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Social Local Mobile (SoLoMo) Data. Video.

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Advertising goes 30-50% digital: the
question is not if but when / who / how

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Humans
Data
AI
Software
The
Future
Interfaces
Machines
Smart Agents
Information
Robots
Permission, Trust
Control, Recourse
Standards, Open
Platforms, APIs
Regulations,
Policies, Ethics

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Sooner or later
everything
becomes:
Dynamic
Real-time
Social
Mobile
Local
Fluid
Predictive

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The Tricorder for News is coming

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Searching
for something
Information
seeking usi.e. we are ‘being searched’

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We are being searched...sought-out...found
Most technologies that we used to direct will start
conducting themselves

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Your future editorial assistants?

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Big Data without ‘Big Meaning’
and ‘Big Design’ is irrelevant

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Big Data without Big Meaning is just like crude oil

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Video Source: IBM Future Scenarios, Youtube
Data-journalism is probably
indispensable

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Source: wired.com
Crucial for the Future of Journalism:
Open data, open ecosystems, open standards, open technologies

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Journalism in the age of leaps...

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Locked Loose
Journalism: the direction is clear...
Liquid

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Added values based on ‘Big Data’ and
‘Big Design’ can make a huge difference

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If data is the new oil, than should ‘gas stations’ be licensed?

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‎
Henri Poincaré

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Summary and take-aways

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Thanks for your time and attention
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