This is a slightly edited version of my slides presented in London on June 7, 2013 and the Reuters Institute see https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/research/conferences/forthcoming-conferences/big-data-big-ideas-for-media.html BTW: You can download ALL of my slideshows, free books and other stuff at http://futuristgerd.com/downloads/ "Data stockpiles are growing exponentially...consumer profiles, media content usage patterns, Twitter and Facebook posts, online purchases, public records, real-time media user behavior and much more. The Big Ideas conference speakers will inspire tactics and strategies to harness these data. The media industry's leading edge experts from journalism and business disciplines will detail their own case studies, outlining their challenges and triumphs using tools to understand complex data sets. They will outline how these experiences have paved the way to prize-winning journalism, audience insights and growing revenues..."

1. Big Data and what it could...
or should mean for the Future
of Media and Journalism

2. “Big Data is high-volume, high-velocity and high-
variety information assets that demand cost-effective,
innovative forms of information processing for
enhanced insight and decision making” *Gartner
Streams. Cloud. Now. We. Data (Kevin Kelly)

3. The digital default is coming

5. 5

6. 6

7. Big Data: some relevant facts & stats

8. 8

9. Rise of data-driven business models

10. Paying with Data | Privacy | Attention

11. Disruption ☯ Opportunity

12. Data. Input. Ideas. Information
1 - 2 - 4 - 8 - 1 6 - 3 2 - 6 4 - 1 2 8
“We will be online all the time in virtual / augmented reality. We won’t
be looking at devices such as tablets and phones. Rather, computer
displays will be fully integrated with real reality” (Ray Kurzweil)

13. Disruptions and Opportunities for Data Journalism

14. Smart-everything: the IoT, M2M

15. ‘Finding relevant stuff’ might be a good robot job - to a point

16. “Search engines won’t wait for you to ask for information.
They will know you like a friend, aware of your concerns and
interests at a detailed level” Ray Kurzweil

18. Journalism: making sense of
exponential data, for linear humans:)

19. Knowledge. Wisdom. Learnings. Relevance. Depth.
http://pinterest.com/pin/197876977350036245/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIKW_Pyramid

20. Big Data-fuels Cross-Media Story Telling
Big Data-fuels Vizuality. Immersion.

21. Mobile devices are becoming our external brains

22. ‘External Brains’ may become good targets for ads, too:)
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/03/this-is-the-scariest-statistic-about-the-newspaper-business-today/274125/

23. Massive Human - Machine /AI Interface (R)Evolution

24. The 3 spheres of data: shift towards anticipation
Volunteered InferredObserved

25. A total on-demand, serendipity-free, self-
controlled future will not be human enough

26. Social Local Mobile (SoLoMo) Data. Video.

27. Advertising goes 30-50% digital: the
question is not if but when / who / how

28. Humans
Data
AI
Software
The
Future
Interfaces
Machines
Smart Agents
Information
Robots
Permission, Trust
Control, Recourse
Standards, Open
Platforms, APIs
Regulations,
Policies, Ethics

29. Sooner or later
everything
becomes:
Dynamic
Real-time
Social
Mobile
Local
Fluid
Predictive

30. The Tricorder for News is coming

31. Searching
for something
Information
seeking usi.e. we are ‘being searched’

32. We are being searched...sought-out...found
Most technologies that we used to direct will start
conducting themselves

33. Your future editorial assistants?

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Big Data without ‘Big Meaning’
and ‘Big Design’ is irrelevant

35. Big Data without Big Meaning is just like crude oil

36. Video Source: IBM Future Scenarios, Youtube
Data-journalism is probably
indispensable

37. Source: wired.com
Crucial for the Future of Journalism:
Open data, open ecosystems, open standards, open technologies

38. Journalism in the age of leaps...

39. Locked Loose
Journalism: the direction is clear...
Liquid

40. Added values based on ‘Big Data’ and
‘Big Design’ can make a huge difference

41. If data is the new oil, than should ‘gas stations’ be licensed?

42. ‎
Henri Poincaré

43. Summary and take-aways

44. Thanks for your time and attention
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