Post on 15-Aug-2015
Big Data for Real People
Christopher Osborne – Maps & Geo
Origins of Big Data and Data Science
2004
2005
“We set up a room with girls in it. Each one had a Marchant. But one was the multiplier, and another was the adder, and this one cubed, and all she did was cube this number and send it to the next one”
Richard Feynman, 1943
Four Rules for Visualisation
PersonalisedAccessible ActionableInstinctive
Average London commute is 37.8 mins1
296 hours per year2
530 days of your working life3
1) Quarterly Labour Force Survey, December 2009; 2) 47 weeks; 3) 43 years
“My thermostat’s really complicated to use... so when I want to make the heating come
on I just put it in the fridge.”
“What is a dashboard?”
Four Rules for Insight
PersonalisedAccessible ActionableInstinctive