Going it alone will get you there faster but going together will always take you further. This has never been truer than when thinking about the relationship between data and creativity. Get the balance right and you will always develop stronger ideas. Slides from our Hyper Island seminar on data and creativity.

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Thinking big while thinking real..
A Beyond presentation by Charlie Lyons
and Nils Mork-Ulnes
July 2013
data vs hunch

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Works between analysts and
creatives. Generally a bit
crazy....probably as a result of
working with the afore
mentioned teams....
who the hell
are we?
Let’s introduce ourselves !
King of Data!
Leads the analytics team into
a bright future. If you ever
need a restaurant tip he is
your man....
Charlie Lyons
Director
Nils Mork-Ulnes
Head of Analytics
Creative Junkie

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WHAT IS BEYOND?How did we form, what do we do and who do we work with?

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CREDENTIALS?

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INSIGHT
TECHNOLOGY SOCIAL
LESS FINANCIAL RISK, MORE CREATIVE PRECISION, AWESOME RESULTS

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WE drive brand
engagement through the
CREATIVE
applicationof content & technology

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LONDON
BAY AREA
NEW YORK
Our clients drive the social web
... and harness it

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WHAT IS IT REALLY LIKE
OUT THERE?The truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth....

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RELATIONSHIPS

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want it?
you get
f$cked..

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me sexy!
make

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want it?
youyeah!
hell

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THE LAY OF THE LAND....

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IT USED TO BE REALLY

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20 years ago
HR Consultants
brand
HR
pr
finance
operations
strategy
marketing
learning
r&D
product development
sales
PR
Accountants
Management
Consultants
Branding Agencies
Ad Agencies
Corporate
Training
Consultants
Sales
Consultants
Product design
& innovation
agencies

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and then the web came along
brand
HR
pr
finance
operations
strategy
marketing
learning
r&D
product development
sales
Brand website
Online ads

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and got useful for more things
brand
HR
pr
finance
operations
strategy
marketing
learning
r&D
product development
sales
Brand website
Online ads
Social
E-commerce
SEM
“Fun” apps

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and a few more things
brand
HR
pr
finance
operations
strategy
marketing
learning
r&D
product development
sales
Social analytics
Digital supply chains
Digital transformation /
change management
E-Recruiting
E-Learning
Co-creation
Crowdsourcing
“Serious” apps
Digital product
design & testing
Digital service design
Brand website
Online ads
Social
E-commerce
SEM
“Fun” apps

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everybody’s getting into each others’ business
Just a few examples...
branding
PR
management
consultancies
data
analytics
Design
social
advertising
digital
Accenture
buying Fjord
W+K
aces social with Old Spice
WCG
buying predictive analytics
firm
WPP
buying AKQA
PR + data
analytics
digitalADVertising +
ADVertising+social
+management
consultancies Design

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ad spend has followed eyeballs...
6%
14%
42%
26%
12%
23%
10%
43%
22%
3%
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
Print Radio TV Internet Mobile
%ofTotalMediaConsumptionTime
orAdvertisingSpending
Time Spent Ad Spend
% of Time Spent in Media vs. % of Advertising Spending, USA 2012
~$20B+
Opportunity
in USA
Internet Ad
= $37B*
Mobile Ad
= $4B*

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the truth

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From scarcity to abundance of data
“WE HAVE PRODUCED MORE DATA IN THE
LAST TWO YEARS THAN IN ALL OF
HISTORY PRIOR TO THAT”
MCKINSEY & CO. 2012

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THE VALUE OF DATA HAS
SHIFTED FROM CREATING
IT TO INTERPRETING IT
AND BEING THE FIRST TO
TAKE ACTION.

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DATA DESCRIBES THINGS AS THEY ARE...
WHICH ISN’T ALWAYS A NEAT STORY

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explanation
an
our limited ability to look at
Narrative Fallacies -
into them..
sequences of facts without weaving
—Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan

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Where this propensity can
go wrong is when it
increases our impression of
understanding.
—Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan

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ALGORITHMS TEND TO
PREDICT NATURE BETTER
THAN HUMAN EXPERTS....

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OF 200 COMPARISONS OF CLINICAL
AND STATISTICAL PREDICTIONS
ABOUT 60% HAVE SHOWN
SIGNIFICANTLY BETTER ACCURACY
FOR ALGORITHMS OVER HUMAN
EXPERTS- THINKING FAST AND SLOW

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THE PROBLEM WITH

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when psychology drives behaviour, algorithms fail
price = what the market wants to pay
book value = what accountants think it’s worth
market price to book value - s&p 500 - 1979-2011

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big data is no panacea
With more data, you get more spurious correlations,
more false positives, and erroneous answers.
if the quantity of information is increasing by
2.5 quintillion bytes per day, the amount of
useful information almost certainly isn't.
Most of it is just noise, and the noise is
increasing faster than the signal.
NATE SILVER, AUTHOR OF THE NOISE AND THE SIGNAL

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HOW DO YOU PLAY IN A WORLD THAT IS
WITH DATA BUT RUN
BY EMOTIONS?
BECOMING OBSESSED

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KNOW THE LIMITS AND STRENGTHS
STRENGTHS OF OPINION AND EMPIRICAL PROOF...
...AND ITERATE TO A SOLUTION THROUGH
A DIALOGUE BETWEEN THE TWO

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PROTECT YOUR CREATIVE IDEAS

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WHAT ARE
CLIENTS
LIKE?
REALLY

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CONFUSED!

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M.O.A.S

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MOON.ON.A.STICK

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MOAS?

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USE DATA HERE

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REDUX
YOUR
BRIEFS

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WHITE SPACES

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Turning Unstructured data into customer insights
who
influences
them?
where Do they
spend their
time?
What drives
consideration?
What drives
brand
Preference &
emotional
connections?
?

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are there
White space
opportunities
for content?
what do they
search for?
what are they
talking about?
what content
will they
share?
Using social data for customer-centric digital strategies

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Most conversations aren’t about your brand
0.5%
0.5%
99%
You and your competitors
Their needs Brand A Brand B

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Zeitgeist/Cultural
Tensions
Brand Proposition Ideas that
connect
Use data to Locate common ground
Data (search, social) can help you to create a strategy for how the brand proposition
best connects with stakeholders, in ways that make it relevant to them.
The common ground
serves as the blueprint for
how the brand can tell its
story in a relevant way -
based on data-led insights
from search and social
patterns (conversations/
queries). Provides creative
insight and ensures the
plan matches the market
wants/needs.
(HUNCH) (Data)

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How do you interchange between data and creativity?
DATA VS HUNCH?

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HOW DO YOU PLAY IN A WORLD THAT IS
WITH DATA BUT RUN
BY EMOTIONS?
BECOMING OBSESSED

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i’m gonna
send to me
to outta space...

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this data is
powerful
man,

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so creative
I am
right now!

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blowing my
this is
mind!!

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shiitttt!!!

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Phew......
I love my data!
forgot where I was!
I was having so much fun i

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BRINGING IT ALL
TOGETHER..Short recap on some of these fabulous thoughts...

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IS YOUR FRIEND..

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..BUT ALSO TRUST YOUR GUT!

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Data Hunch

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badass!
i’m a
hunchy
data

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THANK YOU
timefor your
THANK YOU
timefor your
Nils Mork-Ulnes
Head of Analytics
+44 (0)2079 086556
+44 (0)7713 077994
nils@bynd.com
Charlie Lyons
Director
+44 (0)2079 086565
+44(0) 7540 686704
charlie@bynd.com