Big Data

Referencing the previous comments Ive made over the years about Linked Data and Big Data
http://nickhorslen.blogspot.co.uk/search?q=linked+data
http://nickhorslen.blogspot.co.uk/search?q=big+data
http://nickhorslen.blogspot.co.uk/search?q=visualisation
http://nickhorslen.blogspot.co.uk/search?q=hans

Its interesting to see just how much inpact BIG DATA is starting to have in key areas such as:

• National and Global Health http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-21045594
• Crime and police management http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/08/09/microsoft_domain_awareness_system/
• Commerce and consumer behaviour http://radar.oreilly.com/2012/09/big-data-retail-iphone-nfc-mobile-commerce.html
• Weather and Climate change modeling http://www.usatoday.com/story/weather/2012/10/30/sandy-hurricane-models/1668867/
• Infrastructure and development of cities http://civic.mit.edu/blog/kanarinka/cities-and-big-data-opening-panel-of-the-urban-code-conference-at-mit AND http://www.future-internet.eu/home/future-internet-assembly/aalborg-may-2012/31-smart-cities-and-big-data.html
• International development and facets of the MDG's http://www.unglobalpulse.org/taxonomy/term/791 AND http://mdgs.un.org/unsd/mdg/data.aspx AND dont forget www.gapminder.com and other visualisations I have featured before from www.TED.com

Anywhere now that data is catpure realtime and/or in processes, where pc's, mobiles, internet devices (The Internet of Things) is throwing up massive amounts of data, which can unluck new understanding for economists, business, government and NGO's.

With the hugh stides in technology development from Storage and Capture, to Processing and Mining data, the whole wave of the semantic web, web2.0, augmented reality, data mining and semantic processing algorithms makes this so interesting to watch.

I will post further links that illustrate these points later.
personally with the huge numbers and issues around the MDG's and International development, this is set to be tremendous for progress in the rest of this decade.