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

[Alex Stobart]

Naomi

Data is

big, open, personal ( BOP )

small, unstructured, structured (SUS)

I prefer mine personal, open and small

Alex
On 22 Apr 2013 15:53, "Naomi Lillie" <naomi.lillie at okfn.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> This reminded me of the talk at January's #OpenDataEDB by Freda O'Byrne:
> small data is important!
>
> Naomi
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> 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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