Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Broad Data Jim Hendler Tetherless World Professor of Computer and Cognitive Science Director, The Rensselaer Institute of Data Exploration and Applications (IDEA) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~hendler @jahendler (twitter) These slides will be available on slideshare in the near future under the name “Broad Data India 2015”

Data is important! Roughly every 50 years a new power source for the human race is found. Once upon a time it was chemical, then it was electrical, then nuclear, etc. Information – so not just data, but data being used – is the new power source for our generation. http://www.slideshare.net/jahendler/the-science-of-data-science

Raw data now https://www.ted.com/talks/tim_berners_lee_the_year_open_data_went_worldwide

Quick visit to http://data.gov What’s at risk Quick visit to http://data.gov

Open Data– there’s a lot out there

Semantic Web and Linked Data (UK) 6 Semantic Web and Linked Data (UK) Royal Mail County Council IOGDC Open Data Tutorial Ordnance Survey

Semantic Web and Linked Data (US examples) http://logd.tw.rpi.edu

Multiple Datasets Datasets Visualization Applications Ozone levels (data.gov) Site location (epa.gov) Visualization Simile Exhibit (faceted map) Google Viz (timeline) Applications Data.gov demo Epa.gov site info

Exchange: Core Cross-Data-Set Visualizations Note: also developer tools for agencies/third parties to create such visualizations

Were there really no fires in 1985? Why this matters Were there really no fires in 1985?

Dataset extension to schema.org - April, 2013 Schema.org/Dataset – add this to your pages!

Schema.org/Dataset (Schema-labs, data search engne)

Backsliding! (disappearing data) http://logd.tw.rpi.edu