1. 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
@jahendler (twitter)
These slides will be available on slideshare in the near future under the name “Broad Data India 2015”

2. 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.

3. Raw data now

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

5. Open Data– there’s a lot out there

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

7. Semantic Web and Linked Data (US examples)

8. 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

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

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

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

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

13. Backsliding! (disappearing data)