LUMINARY LABS @JENVANDERMEER @LUMINARYLABS OPEN DATA: IT’S NOT JUST FOR GOVERNMENTS Special Valentine’s Week Edition Jen van der Meer STRATA SANTA CLARA.

LUMINARY LABS @JENVANDERMEER @LUMINARYLABS

OPEN DATA: IT’S NOT JUST FOR GOVERNMENTSSpecial Valentine’s Week Edition

Jen van der Meer

STRATA SANTA CLARA 2014

MAKING DATA WORK | DATA DRIVEN BUSINESS DAY

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Jen van der Meer@JENVANDERMEER

GOVS OPEN DATA

@JENVANDERMEER

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FIRST CAME THIS

THEN THIS

THEN THIS

AND THIS

THEN THESE DOTS

IT ISN’T STRATA UNTIL SOMEONE SHOWS YOU THE BABBAGE ENGINE

THEN THIS!

LATER, THIS:

WHICH MADE THIS POSSIBLE

AND LET’S NOT FORGET WHAT A BIG DEAL THIS WAS

“Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants.”

President Barack Obama, quoting Louis Brandeis, on signing the Freedom of Information Act memo to make open and machine readable the default setting for government.

THEN, FIRST TO THE PARTY, NOW BACK AGAIN

WE DO NOT CLOSED DATA

@JENVANDERMEER

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SUPPLY SIDE OF OPEN DATA

DEMAND SIDE OF OPEN DATA

And back again

SUPPLY SIDE OF OPEN DATA: GPS

DEMAND SIDE: FLU

DEMAND SIDE: RATS

DEMAND SIDE: YELP

OPEN DATA HAS ECONOMIC, NOT JUST SOCIETAL BENEFITS

“Making data more “liquid” (open, widely available, and in sharable formats) has the potential to unlock large amounts of economic value, by improving the efficiency and effectiveness of existing processes; making possible new products, services and markets; and creating value for individual consumers and citizens.”

“An estimated $3 trillion in annual economic potential.”

McKinsey Global Institute Open Data 2013

DEMAND SIDE OF OPEN DATA: INSURANCE

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OPEN DATA IS A POSITIVE EXTERNALITY

CLOSED DATA IS A NEGATIVE EXTERNALITY

BUT CLOSED DATA IS SOMETHING TO GET MAD ABOUT

• Slower science• Fewer medical breakthroughs• More money chasing programs that do not

work, but we do not know it yet• Continued failure for all of us to understand

the negative consequences that one actor incurs that we all pay

ASK NOT WHAT OPEN DATA CAN DO FOR YOU

Joel Gurin, NYUGovLab : Open Data Now

OPEN DATA: IT’S FOR BUSINESS TOO

OPEN DATA 500

OPEN DATA 500 – NYUGOVLAB

ASK WHAT YOU CAN DO FOR OPEN DATA

SHOW THE : A CALL TOPUBLIC SOURCE

@JENVANDERMEER

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ClosedAccessible,

Interoperable, Liquid

Open

Availableto some

At cost

Not sharable

Available to all

For free

Unlimited use

Availableto some

Maybe free

Sometimes sharable

PUBLIC SOURCE: IT’S JUST BETTER

DOES IT HAVE TO BE .ORG?

WILL .EDU BE THE KEEPER OF PRIVATE SECTOR OPEN DATA?

Yale University Open Data Access (YODA) Project: With J&J, Medtronic

WILL THE NEW BREED OF OPEN STARTUPS SHOW THE WAY?

University Open Data Access (YODA) Project: With J&J, Medtronic, Microsoft DISCLOSURE: Luminary Labs Ventures is an angel investor in Iodine

WILL PUBLIC PRIVATE PARNTERSHIPS REIGN?

Drug Companies Join NIH in Study of Alzheimer's, Diabetes, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Lupus, taking a page from the Open Source Movement

OR WILL APPLE SAVE US FROM OURSELVES?

Drug Companies Join NIH in Study of Alzheimer's, Diabetes, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Lupus, taking a page from the Open Source Movement

WILL APPLE TEMPT US WITH PERSUASIVE BUT CLOSED DATAVIZ?

“To to my mind, the big question is not what Healthbook will look like but whether Apple will make it easy to get our data out of it. If they do, this will be a massive game changer for the quantified self, health, and wellness markets.”

Fred Wilson, AVC.com

WHEN WE FINALLY HAVE OPEN DATA, WILL WE SEE EVERYTHING INTERCONNECTED?

“He had shown her all the workings of his soul, mistaking this for love.”

= EM Forster, The Longest Journey

WHAT TO DO

@JENVANDERMEER | @LuminaryLabs | @HDChallenges

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Civically hack

Start an open data company HealthDataChallenges.com

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