This document discusses the humanitarian applications of big data that were presented at the ICCM2013 conference in Nairobi, Kenya. It outlines different types and qualities of data like packet data, metadata, media and content that pose problems like variety, velocity and volume for humanitarian organizations. These big data problems increase exponentially in complexity. The talk presented how humanitarian groups can quantify, qualify and query big data to help with risk analytics, media monitoring and other efforts. It credits sources that informed the discussion and examples of projects applying big data for humanitarian aims.