The Human Face of Big Data mission control:NYC

Rick Smolan and his team present their project, "The Human Face of Big Data" to an audience of venture capitalists, app developers and journalists in NYC on Oct. 2, 2012.

  1. Human Face of Big Data Mission Control NYC: from dawn of civ to 2003, 5 exabytes of data created. Since 2003, 5 exabytes every 2 days
  2. Human Face of Big Data NYC (HFBD NYC): Smolan: Big Data is where the Internet was in 1993; will be bigger than Internet
  3. HFBD NYC: Smolan: before big data like seeing world through 1 eye. BD opens 2nd eye, adding not just info but perspective and context
  4. HFBD NYC: Enriquez (Excel VM) data is a digital tattoo, be sure you realize your online posts stay with you, maybe even longer than a tattoo
  5. HFBD NYC: Includes mobile app w/60 questions in 8 languages available over the next 2 months. 1.6 million responses so far, Smolan says
  6. HFBD: Thorp (NYTimes) if data is the new oil, will we do better w/ preserved frags of our lives then we did w/preserved frags of our planet?

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