Jon Schwabish, PolicyViz, Urban Institute, Founder, Senior Researcher and Data Visualization Expert
The Age of More Open Data
- NEW ANALYTICAL
TECHNOLOGIES MAKE IT
EASIER TO CORRELATE
DIFFERENT BUSINESS DATA
SETS FROM DIFFERENT
SILOS IN THE ENTERPRISE,
REVEALING MORE VALUABLE
INSIGHTS. - NEW ANALYTICS TOOLS
ARE MOVING US TO THE
NEXT GENERATION OF
OPEN DATA, WHICH
INVOLVES RENDERING
VAST QUANTITIES OF
COLLECTED DATA INTO A
FORM THAT ANYONE CAN
ACCESS AND UNDERSTAND.
“Tools that make it easier to analyze large data sets allow you to break down walls between organizational silos and discover new insights.”
In my role conducting public policy research, I see how new tools capable of quickly querying big data sets are changing the way we think about research. This is especially true when we work with administrative data. For example, I once worked on an analysis involving Social Security data that contained more than a billion observations—a good-sized data set—and I was able to query all those data in different ways and learn some interesting things.
This is an excerpt from Data Disruption. The eBook was generously sponsored by Mighty Guides.
