Data is compiled from every aspect of our lives. Yet, for too long,
policies and technical obstacles kept you and me from access to it.
Now, data can be shared instantly as it is gathered, but too many
still act as if the old rules of data scarcity still prevail. When
data"is" made available to all who need it and on a real-time
basis, it becomes valuable information. How valuable? Think how the
U.S.'s decision to allow free access to Global Positioning System
data started a global location- based services industry creating
billions of dollars of wealth and transforming our lives. "Data
Dynamite" shows how a combination of proven tools let us "tag" data
with information that is permanently attached to it, then lets the
data be transmitted instantly wherever we insert those same tags.
It describes new tools that let us analyze data collaboratively and
visualizations that make it come alive. The book shows how the
results of these steps can transform every aspect of our lives:
Companies can streamline their supply chains, make better internal
decisions, and even involve the public in finding creative new ways
to profit from their data. Government can be leaner, regulations
streamlined, yet actually do a better job protecting us. One expert
says if such a system had been in effect in the mortgage industry,
the global economic Great Recession could have been avoided. You
and I can reduce our environmental impacts, simplify our lives, and
even take charge of our health care by sharing data that we
generate ourselves using smartphones and other devices. "Data
Dynamite" shows how a District of Columbia agency gives us a
preview of what life will be like when data is available to all who
need it and organizations become data-centric. Other examples
detailed in the book include a hospital that has improved patient
care, especially in life-or-death emergency situations, by creating
unified online patient records; and a system that allows first
responders and other officials to access a wide range of real-time
information in a disaster or terror attack. Another life-or-death
example allows patients with a wide variety of life-threatening
diseases to share information about their conditions to speed
development of cures. Another example describes "Internet of
Things" pill bottle cap that automatically reminds your mother to
take her pills, while also automatically notifying the doctor when
she actually takes them. Still another tells how a Mexican company
in the behind-the-times construction industry shames high-tech
companies with its real-time communications sharing and decision
making. Martin Luther unleashed the printed word by translating the
Bible into German so priests were no longer needed as
intermediaries, and allowed wide public access by printing it
instead of having it copied by monks. "Data Dynamite" will do the
same for data, unleashing its power by giving everyone access using
the Internet. "Data Dynamite" delivers on its promise, showing how
free, real-time data really is "dynamite," just waiting for us to
show the vision and determination to make it available. When we do
share it, it will blow away our old sense of limits and create a
new reality of unprecedented opportunity.
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