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“beyond borders” @wilbanks
08 june 2014 vancouver
we’re way past old information
borders.
thought experiment…
1992
“a group of volunteers connected by a global computer network will
build for free and give away an encyclopedia that displaces
Britannica”
http://jaysimons.deviantart.com/art/Map-of-the-Internet-2-0-436762109
1. when borders shift, so do
epistemologies.
cheap data changes how we
justify our opinions.
OPS = AB(H + BB + HBP) + TB(AB + BB + SF + HBP) / AB(AB + BB + SF + HBP)
cheap data is changing our
politics.
cheap data is going to change our health.
image via http://macrumors.com/
but what actually needs to be done day to day?
store content organize content
query content
store content organize content
query content
store content organize content
query content
meet the new boss?
2. we don’t even have a map
for what data is doing.
http://www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/520426/the-real-privacy-problem/
cheap data transgresses lots of things we expect…
but haven’t ever been guaranteed.
privacy.
property.
exclusivity.
https://www.scienceexchange.com/
authority.
3. borders and maps for data
don’t yet exist. but they are forming.
and the valuable ones are forming across disciplines.
“compatible communication” is the real key.
small but compatibly communicating groups can
create asymmetrically valuable resources.
small group sharing
proven to work in: software content
let’s try a small but compatibly
communicating test in breast cancer.
code sharing a prerequisite.
accuracy of model jumped three orders of
magnitude in nine days.
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76% accurate.
21 february 2013
17 april 2013
ongoing...
SHOW ME THE CODE!
...
...
...
...
...
let’s try a small but compatibly
communicating group in big science.
68core projects
1070datasets
1723results
18papers in press
9months of compatible
communication
let’s try it with my personal genomic data.
“eat less and exercise”
volunteer must click to proceed
all boxes must be checked
http://opensnp.org/users/615
http://files.snpedia.com/reports/promethease_data/genome_jtw_ui2.html
“Also there is no suggestion of consanguinity in your pedigree.” !
http://www.ianlogan.co.uk/
(the compatible communication is
conspicuously absent)
compatible communication requires
standards.
three historically proven methods for
compatible communication.
a. incrementalism.
b. the cartel.
c. open standards.
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what’s the value of any measurement when we
can measure everything?
joy’s law is truer than ever.
the value is in the compatible
communication.
thank you !
@wilbanks [email protected]