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BIG DATA What is it and Why Do We Care?
Elaine M. Lasda BergmanUniversity at Albany
March 6, [email protected]
Webinar Presentation for the Special Libraries Association
What we’re going to cover today
• What is Big Data• What is great about Big Data• What is not so great• The role of Librarians and Info Pros in the Big
Data landscape• Tools and Resources
How Big is Big?
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The Three Vs
•Variety •Velocity •Volume
Big Data Vs Open Data
Based on http://www.opendatanow.com/2013/11/new-big-data-vs-open-data-mapping-it-out/
BIG DATA OPEN GOV’T
OPEN DATA
Is Big Data a Game Changer?
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Types of Data Scientists
• Statistics• Mathematics• Data Engineering• Machine Learning• Business • Software engineering• Visualization• GIShttp://www.datasciencecentral.com/profiles/blogs/six-categories-of-data-scientists
Big Data is FANTASTIC!
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Applications of Big Data (in general)
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BIG Data is TERRIBLE!
http://startupmixology.tech.co/2010-chicago/staff/harper-reed
Caveats and limitations
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False Correlations
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Competencies for Info Pros/Librarians
Add Data Literacy!
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What We Just Talked About
• The Three V’s• Amazing Capabilities• The Human Element• Our Roles as Information Professionals
Now the Fun Stuff!
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Read!
• Big Data: A Revolution that Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think, by Viktor Mayer-Schonberger http://www.amazon.com/Big-Data-Revolution-Transform-Think/dp/0544002695
• “For Dummies” Books
Read!
• An Introduction to Data Science, by Jeffrey Stanton http://jsresearch.net/
• Frontiers in Massive Data Analysis http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=18374
General Resource Lists/Training
• Syracuse University Library Guide on Data Science http://researchguides.library.syr.edu/datascience
• ALA ACRL “Keeping Up With Big Data” page http://www.ala.org/acrl/publications/keeping_up_with/big_data
• Data Information Literacy at Purdue wiki http://wiki.lib.purdue.edu/display/ste/Home
• MOOCs
Policy/Best Practices
• Council For Big Data, Ethics and Society
http://www.datasociety.net/initiatives/council-for-big-data-ethics-and-society/
• Research Data Management Principles, Practices, and Prospects – CLIR
http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub160
Policy/Best Practices
• Rebuilding the Mosaic http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2011/nsf11086/nsf11086.pdf
• GovLab
http://thegovlab.org/
• Terminology issues
Keep Current
Newsletters• Data Science Weekly http://www.datascienceweekly.org/
• Data Science Central http://www.datasciencecentral.com/
• R-Bloggers http://www.r-bloggers.com/
Keep Current
Blogs• Hilary Mason http://www.hilarymason.com/
• Mathbabe http://mathbabe.org/
• Bits Blog in NY Times http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/
• No Free Hunch http://blog.kaggle.com/
• What’s the Big Data http://whatsthebigdata.com/
PLAY!
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Big, Open Data Sources
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Google Data Explorer https://www.google.com/publicdata/directory
Scale Unlimitedhttp://www.scaleunlimited.com/datasets/public-datasets/
Database Structure/Data Analysis
• R http://cran.us.r-project.org/
• Hive/Hadoop http://hive.apache.org/
• PostgreSQL http://www.postgresql.org/
• Project Bamboo Dirt http://dirt.projectbamboo.org/
• Mlcomp http://mlcomp.org/
Visualization tools
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ManyEyeshttp://www-958.ibm.com/software/analytics/manyeyes/
Google Fusion Tableshttps://support.google.com/fusiontables/answer/2571232?hl=en
Just Plain Cool!
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My Magic Plushttps://disneyworld.disney.go.com/plan/my-disney-experience/my-magic-plus/
Information is Beautifulhttp://www.informationisbeautiful.net/
Facebook’s Data Science Pagehttps://www.facebook.com/data
Google Trendshttp://www.google.com/trends/
One Final Note:Professional Development
SLA Data Caucus initiative!
IASSIST http://www.iassistdata.org/
ASIS&T http://www.asis.org/
LinkedIN Groups see: http://researchguides.library.syr.edu/content.php?pid=484454&sid=4078160
Contact Me
Elaine Lasda [email protected]://www.slideshare.net/librarian68/@ElaineLibrarian on Twitter