BIS2 at The Canadian Gaming Summit

BIS2 recently attended the Canadian Gaming Summit in Niagara Falls, ON. It was a beautiful location, and a great chance to talk to some of the key players in the field.

We've made a short video with some of the photos from the event.

Thank you to everyone involved!

Article Link: Make Data Work Throughout Your Organization

Article Via Harvard Business Review

Some great insights into the social and organizational benefits of adopting data into your business.

Read more here.

Infographic: How Much Data is Created Every Minute?

Via Visual News


Infographic by Visual News

Great job by the creative thinkers at Domo.

Infographic: Venus Transit of the Sun: A 2012 Observer's Guide 

Via Space.com

Great example of portraying complex ideas in pictorial form. Love this infographic from Space.com on the transit of Venus across the Sun as seen from our vantage point.

Article Link: 7 Opinions on Big Data: Defining It, Using It, Storing It and More

Article Via Insurance Tech 

Nice to hear some thoughts on Big Data from the community. Read more here.

"It's estimated that there's a 66% probability that at least one of the cars involved in an accident with a lawsuit involved has an event data recorder. We have the ability to import the data from that into a claim file. It would turn every adjuster into a sort of CSI investigator."

—Greg Horn, VP of Industry Relations for Mitchell International

Infographic: Big Data

Infographic Via The Next Web

Well, we love infographics, and we love Big Data—and here's a combination of the two! Click on the image to see the full infographic over at The Next Web.

Article Link: Big Data Problem Plagues Government Agencies

Article via CIO

Government agencies are collecting vast amounts of data, but they're struggling just to store it, let alone analyze it to improve efficiency, accuracy and forecasts.

"Government has a gold mine of data at its fingertips," says Mark Weber, president of U.S. Public Sector for NetApp, underwriter of MeriTalk's report. "The key is turning that data into high-quality information that can increase efficiencies and inform decisions. Agencies need to look at Big Data solutions that can help them efficiently process, analyze, manage and access data, enabling them to more effectively execute their missions."

Read more here

Article Link – Bankers want big data analytics

Article via Jaspersoft

"...the area that will define the financial sector over the next few years is big data analytics..."

Click here to read the full article.

Article Link – Benefits of Using Data to Make Decisions: Guest Post by Erin Palmer

Article via Smart Data Collective

A wonderfully well-written article by Erin Palmer outlining some of the benefits of using data to make better business decisions. Click here to read the full article.

Data Anatomy by Ryoji Ikeda

Berlin, 19 April – 1st May

"data.anatomy [civic] is a new audiovisual installation by Ryoji Ikeda, arising from a unique collaboration with Mitsuru Kariya, the development leader of the new Honda Civic.
Exhibited as a 3-screen video projection, data.anatomy [civic] immerses viewers in an intricate yet vast audiovisual composition derived from the entire data set of the car... "

For more images and videos of the exhibition, see here.

In the comments of this Creative Applications article, someone suggests that this project is "beautiful but at the end its really really flat", apparently referring to the fact that the installation is fairly commercial in purpose and lacking in depth. But regardless of the purpose of the installation, it remains just that. An installation. Art is subjective by nature.

In this day and age where data is such a relevant hot topic, it's interesting that companies are adopting creative means of associating with the data deluge. Information design seems to becoming a popular aesthetic, and businesses taking advantage of this popularity also means those artists and creators such as Ryoji Ikeda who contribute to the field are being given a platform to share their work.

It's also interesting to see the increasing adoption of art and creativity as a means of reaching an audience, both to explain and discuss products and to reach customers on an emotional level.

About Ryoji Ikeda

Japan’s leading electronic composer Ryoji Ikeda focuses on the minutiae of ultrasonics, frequencies and the essential characteristics of sound itself. His work exploits sound’s physical property, its causality with human perception and mathematical dianoia as music, time and space. Using computer and digital technology, Ikeda has been developing particular “microscopic” methods for sound engineering and composition. Since 1995 he has been intensely active in sound art through concerts, installations and recordings: the albums +/- (1996), 0 degrees (1998) and Matrix (2000) have been hailed by critics as the most radical and innovative examples of contemporary electronic music. With Carsten Nicolai, he works the collaborative project ‘cyclo.’, which examines error structures and repetitive loops in software and computer programmed music, with audiovisual modules for real time sound visualization. The versatile range of his research is also demonstrated by the collaborations with choreographer William Forsythe/Frankfurt Ballett, contemporary artist Hiroshi Sugimoto, architect Toyo Ito and artist collective Dumb Type, among others. Ryoji Ikeda received the Golden Nica prize at Prix Ars Electronica 2001 in the Digital Music category.