[ok-scotland] Fwd: [okfn-discuss] Forget Big Data, Small Data is the Real Revolution

Mon Apr 22 14:28:21 UTC 2013

Hi all,

This reminded me of the talk at January's #OpenDataEDB by Freda O'Byrne:
small data is important!

Naomi

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From: Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org>
Date: 22 April 2013 14:23
Subject: [okfn-discuss] Forget Big Data, Small Data is the Real Revolution
To: okfn-discuss <okfn-discuss at lists.okfn.org>

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

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