[open-government] About examples of "Big data" making use ofopen gov data

Mon Jan 30 03:01:37 UTC 2012

Dear Josh,

Thank you so much for your reply.
I will surely read it you kindly mentioned.

Regards,
Takashi

>I like the definition of Big Data by Dana Boyd and Kate Crawford (2011) [1]:
>
>> Big Data not only refers to very large data sets and the tools and
>> procedures used to manipulate and analyze them, but also to a
>> computational turn in thought and research (Burkholder 1992). Just as
>> Ford changed the way we made cars - and then transformed work itself
>> - Big Data has emerged a system of knowledge that is already changing
>> the objects of knowledge, while also having the power to inform how
>> we understand human networks and community . . .
>>
>> It reframes key questions about the constitution of knowledge, the
>> processes of research, how we should engage with information, and the
>> nature and the categorization of reality. Just as du Gay and Pryke
>> note that ‘accounting tools...do not simply aid the measurement of
>> economic activity, they shape the reality they measure’ (2002, pp.
>> 12-13), so Big Data stakes out new terrains of objects, methods of
>> knowing, and definitions of social life.
>
>To them, Big Data is more than just volume.
>
>(Not saying the other definition is wrong or anything, just that I found 
>this perspective interesting and useful.)
>
>[1] Boyd, Dana and Kate Crawford. Six Provocations for Big Data. 
>Presented at Oxford Internet Institute’s “A Decade in Internet Time: 
>Symposium on the Dynamics of the Internet and Society,” September 21, 
>2011. http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstractid=1926431
>
>- Josh Tauberer
>
>On 01/25/2012 03:23 AM, takashi.moriyasu.qy at hitachi.com wrote:
>> Dear all,
>>
>> Do you know anything about examples of so-called "Big data", in which
>> open government data is utilized?
>>
>> Thank you for your information in advance.
>>
>> All the best, Takashi Moriyasu
>>
>>
>> ***** Difinition of Big data *****
>>
>> Big data is a term applied to data sets whose size is beyond the
>> ability of commonly used software tools to capture, manage, and
>> process the data within a tolerable elapsed time. Big data sizes are
>> a constantly moving target currently ranging from a few dozen
>> terabytes to many petabytes of data in a single data set. In a 2001
>> research report and related conference presentations, then META Group
>> (now Gartner) analyst, Doug Laney, defined data growth challenges
>> (and opportunities) as being three-dimensional, i.e. increasing
>> volume (amount of data), velocity (speed of data in/out), and variety
>> (range of data types, sources). Gartner continues to use this model
>> for describing "big data."
>>
>> (Quoted from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_data.)
>>
>>
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