Presentation I gave at entrepreneurship course at NYU-CUSP April 2014.

1. T H E C O M I N G W E B O F D ATA
O P E N D A TA I S T H E N E X T U T I L I T Y

4. The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen
every second Year by the People of the several States, and the
Electors in each State shall have the Qualifications requisite for
Electors of the most numerous Branch of the State Legislature.
No Person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the
Age of twenty five Years, and been seven Years a Citizen of the United
States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State
in which he shall be chosen.
Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the
several States which may be included within this Union, according to
their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the
whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a
Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other
Persons. The actual Enumeration shall be made within three Years
after the first Meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within
every subsequent Term of ten Years, in such Manner as they shall by
Law direct. The Number of Representatives shall not exceed one for
every thirty Thousand, but each State shall have at Least one
Article 1 Section 2

5. Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the
several States which may be included within this Union, according to
their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the
whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a
Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other
Persons. The actual Enumeration shall be made within three Years
after the first Meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within
every subsequent Term of ten Years, in such Manner as they shall by
Law direct.

6. US Census

7. N U M Y E A R D AT E TA K E N P O P U L AT I O N
1 1 7 9 0 A U G U S T 2 , 1 7 9 0 3 , 9 2 9 , 3 2 6
2 1 8 0 0 A U G U S T 4 , 1 8 0 0 5 , 3 0 8 , 4 8 3
3 1 8 1 0 A U G U S T 6 , 1 8 1 0 7 , 2 3 9 , 8 8 1
4 1 8 2 0 A U G U S T 7 , 1 8 2 0 9 , 6 3 8 , 4 5 3
5 1 8 3 0 J U N E 1 , 1 8 3 0 1 2 , 8 6 6 , 0 2 0
6 1 8 4 0 J U N E 1 , 1 8 4 0 1 7 , 0 6 9 , 4 5 3
7 1 8 5 0 J U N E 1 , 1 8 5 0 2 3 , 1 9 1 , 8 7 6
8 1 8 6 0 J U N E 1 , 1 8 6 0 3 1 , 4 4 3 , 3 2 1
9 1 8 7 0 J U N E 1 , 1 8 7 0 3 9 , 8 1 8 , 4 4 9
1 0 1 8 8 0 J U N E 1 , 1 8 8 0 5 0 , 1 8 9 , 2 0 9
1 1 1 8 9 0 J U N E 2 , 1 8 9 0 6 2 , 9 4 7 , 7 1 4

8. The 1880 Census took SEVEN years to complete

10. The 1890 Census took 2.5 years to complete

11. Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company

13. “We’re on the cusp of another data-
driven revolution.”

14. NYC’s OPEN DATA LAW
Mar 7, 2012

15. O P E N D ATA
Making Open and Machine
Readable the New Default
for Government Information
- May 9, 2013

16. A P R I L 1 0 , 2 0 1 4

17. T W O O P E N - D ATA D R I V E N G O A L S
O F T H E W O R L D B A N K
• End extreme poverty by 2030
• Promote shared prosperity for the poorest 40% in
developing countries
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN BILLIONS OF PEOPLE
ARE LIFTED FROM POVERTY?
WHAT ECONOMIC EFFECTS WILL IT BRING ABOUT?

18. 130
2,720 7,9102005
2012
2015
EXABYTE
=
1,000,000,000,000,000,000
Global
Data
Volume

19. Global
Data
Volume
2005
2012
2015
EXABYTE
=
1,000,000,000,000,000,000
130
2,720 7,910

20. Global
Data
Volume
20
90,000

21. Global
Data
Volume
2005
2012
2015
130
2,720 7,910
90,000
2020
90
ZETTABYTES
The State is the
biggest generator,
collector and user of
Data.

22. If
an
11
oz
tea
cup
=
1
gigabyte

23. The
Great
Wall
of
China
=
1
ZeDabyte

24. RAW DATA
EVERYWHERE

25. Opendata:UnlockinginnovationandperformancewithliquidinformationMcKinseyGlobalInstitute
McKinsey Global Institute
McKinsey Center for Government
Open data: Unlocking
innovation and performance
with liquid information
October 2013

26. Open data can help unlock $3.2 trillion to $5.4 trillion in economic value
per year across seven “domains”
Exhibit E3
SOURCE: McKinsey Global Institute analysis
NOTE: Numbers may not sum due to rounding.
$ billion
3,220–5,390Total
Consumer finance
Five domains
210–280
Health care1 300–450
Consumer products
2,710–4,660
Oil and gas 240–510
Electricity 340–580
520–1,470
Transportation 720–920
Education 890–1,180
Values represent examples of
open data potential, not
comprehensive sizing of
potential value across sectors
1 Includes US values only.

27. P U B L I C S E C T O R D ATA H A S F U E L E D
O T H E R I N D U S T R I E S
• Public Weather Data - weather industry
• Human Genome - biotech industry
• GPS - location industry
What will you build with Open Data
subsuming everything else?

28. Y O U ’ R E B L A Z I N G T H E T R A I L
• Cultural Shift for Public Sector IT - to Open by Default
• Its happening by law (compliance)
• Changing how Government works is Hard!
!
Why not build something outside Government,
as an Entrepreneur to fix it?

29. March 12, 2014
25th Anniversary of World Wide Web
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Inventor of the WWW

30. TBL’s “Vague but exciting…” proposal

31. 31
BACKGROUND
London Olympics 2012 Opening Ceremony
Tim Berners-Lee

32. In 25 years, we’ve built a
Web of Documents,
AND CHANGED THE WORLD!
What will the next 25 years bring
when we build the
Web of Data?