https://www.syslog.cl.cam.ac.uk/2012/04/18/smart-cities-big-data/ The Cambridge Systems Research Blog Wed, 29 May 2013 14:18:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 https://www.syslog.cl.cam.ac.uk/2012/04/18/smart-cities-big-data/comment-page-1/#comment-201 Wed, 29 May 2013 14:18:00 +0000 http://www.syslog.cl.cam.ac.uk/?p=859#comment-201 Its Big Data with chunks missing. Such as actually who owns what? [And who owns the entity that owns the ‘what’] What rent they charge and why they charge it and so on. Big Data looks like a tribe of Monguls having devasted financial markets have camped down on the lawn of city planners with the same trinkets and snake oil, planners who as Mike implies have rather lost their credibility in a world of self induced uncertainty .
Data and knowledge are very far apart. Its probably flip to to talk of how short term data informs long term data – try linking a developer’s profit and loss account to the valuations of a balance sheet and its easy to see the problem of mega data and nano knowledge..

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