At Strata Santa Clara 2014, Jen van der Meer of Luminary Labs looks at examples from startups to Fortune 500s and successful public-private partnerships, demonstrating that the movement for open data is moving beyond just government to the realm of business.

1. LUMINARY LABS @JENVANDERMEER @LUMINARYLABS
OPEN DATA:
IT’S NOT JUST FOR
GOVERNMENTS
Special Valentine’s Week Edition
Jen van der Meer
STRATA SANTA CLARA 2014
MAKING DATA WORK | DATA DRIVEN BUSINESS DAY

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Jen van der Meer
@JENVANDERMEER

3. GOVS
OPEN DATA
@JENVANDERMEER
BE
MINE

4. FIRST CAME THIS

5. THEN THIS

6. THEN THIS

7. AND THIS

8. THEN THESE DOTS

9. IT ISN’T STRATA UNTIL SOMEONE
SHOWS YOU THE BABBAGE ENGINE
THEN THIS!

10. LATER, THIS:

11. WHICH MADE THIS POSSIBLE

12. AND LET’S NOT FORGET WHAT A
BIG DEAL THIS WAS

13. “Sunlight is said to be the best of
disinfectants.”
President Barack Obama, quoting Louis Brandeis, on
signing the Freedom of Information Act memo to make
open and machine readable the default setting for
government.

14. THEN, FIRST TO THE PARTY,
NOW BACK AGAIN

15. WE DO NOT
CLOSED DATA
@JENVANDERMEER

16. SUPPLY SIDE OF OPEN DATA
DEMAND SIDE OF OPEN DATA
And back again

17. SUPPLY SIDE OF OPEN DATA: GPS

18. DEMAND SIDE: FLU

19. DEMAND SIDE: RATS

20. DEMAND SIDE: YELP

21. OPEN DATA HAS ECONOMIC,
NOT JUST SOCIETAL BENEFITS
“Making data more “liquid” (open, widely available, and in
sharable formats) has the potential to unlock large amounts
of economic value, by improving the efficiency and
effectiveness of existing processes; making possible new
products, services and markets; and creating value for
individual consumers and citizens.”
“An estimated $3 trillion in annual economic potential.”
McKinsey Global Institute Open Data 2013

22. DEMAND SIDE OF OPEN DATA: INSURANCE

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OPEN DATA IS A POSITIVE EXTERNALITY
CLOSED DATA IS A NEGATIVE EXTERNALITY

24. BUT CLOSED DATA IS
SOMETHING TO GET MAD ABOUT
• Slower science
• Fewer medical breakthroughs
• More money chasing programs that do not
work, but we do not know it yet
• Continued failure for all of us to understand
the negative consequences that one actor
incurs that we all pay

25. ASK NOT
WHAT OPEN
DATA CAN DO
FOR YOU

26. Joel Gurin, NYUGovLab : Open Data Now
OPEN DATA: IT’S FOR BUSINESS TOO

27. OPEN DATA 500 – NYUGOVLAB

28. ASK WHAT
YOU CAN
DO FOR
OPEN DATA

29. SHOW THE :
A CALL TO
PUBLIC SOURCE
@JENVANDERMEER

30. Closed
Accessible,
Interoperable,
Liquid
Open
Available
to some
At cost
Not
sharable
Available
to all
For free
Unlimited
use
Available
to some
Maybe free
Sometimes
sharable
PUBLIC SOURCE: IT’S JUST BETTER

31. DOES IT HAVE TO BE .ORG?

32. WILL .EDU BE THE KEEPER OF
PRIVATE SECTOR OPEN DATA?
Yale University Open Data Access (YODA) Project: With J&J, Medtronic

33. WILL THE NEW BREED OF OPEN
STARTUPS SHOW THE WAY?
University Open Data Access (YODA) Project: With J&J, Medtronic, MicrosoftDISCLOSURE: Luminary Labs Ventures is an angel investor in Iodine

34. WILL PUBLIC PRIVATE
PARNTERSHIPS REIGN?
Drug Companies Join NIH in Study of Alzheimer's, Diabetes, Rheumatoid
Arthritis, Lupus, taking a page from the Open Source Movement

35. OR WILL APPLE SAVE US FROM
OURSELVES?
Drug Companies Join NIH in Study of Alzheimer's, Diabetes, Rheumatoid
Arthritis, Lupus, taking a page from the Open Source Movement
WILL APPLE TEMPT US WITH
PERSUASIVE BUT CLOSED DATAVIZ?

36. “To to my mind, the big question is not
what Healthbook will look like but
whether Apple will make it easy to
get our data out of it. If they do, this
will be a massive game changer for
the quantified self, health, and wellness
markets.”
Fred Wilson, AVC.com

37. WHEN WE FINALLY
HAVE OPEN DATA,
WILL WE SEE
EVERYTHING
INTERCONNECTED?

39. “He had shown her all the workings of
his soul, mistaking this for love.”
= EM Forster, The Longest Journey

40. WHAT TO DO
@JENVANDERMEER | @LuminaryLabs | @HDChallenges
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Civically hack
Start an open data company
HealthDataChallenges.com
Publicly source