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Big Data, Serious Games and the Future

of Work

Michael HugosCIO at Large

Center for Systems Innovation [c4si]

© 2012 Michael Hugos [c4si]

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Snapshots from Flatland

Simple abstractions served well when data was scarce, collection was intermittent, and we had lots of time to analyze it

These abstractions live in two dimensions – X and Y –

they live in Flatland


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World of Flatland

“You call me a Circle; but in reality I am not a Circle, but an infinite number of Circles… You cannot indeed see more than one of my sections, or Circles, at a time; for you have no power to raise your eye out of the plane of Flatland...”Edwin Abbott Abbott, Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, 1884

“You must go with me – whither you know not –

into the Land of Three Dimensions!"

Sphere as seen in Flatland – drawing by A. Square


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Escape from Flatland

“Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions… a graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system… Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding… William Gibson, Neuromancer, 1984


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Big Data Spaces

“It is always nighttime in the Metaverse, and the Street is always garish and brilliant like Las

Vegas freed from constraints of physics and finance… The people are pieces of software called avatars.” Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, 1992


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Music in those Spaces

See the patterns in the data and hear the signals in the noise… A new approach to capture the richness of streaming data enables you to process and respond in real-time


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Navigating Cyberspace

Flying through cyberspace, you turn left or right, east or west, seeking insight, looking for the next place to explore


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Data Streams Forth – Patterns and Colors

Something catches your eye… size of the circle is size of demand for your new product… see it expand, driven by usage vectors emanating from customers in this very space [in real-time ]


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Meanwhile Back in Flatland…

VARIABLE

ONE

Y

How do we get from Flatland to Cyberspace?

First the plan…

and then the

execution

X V A R IA B L E T W O


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From Flatland to Cyberspace – 1

VARIABLE

THREE ZStart by moving from 2D to 3D

Three dimensions define a data space composed of selected variables

Can we represent more than three variables in this space?

VARIABLE

ONE

Y



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OBJECT A

3D objects in 3D space represent six variables

We understand this immediately

Can we visualize streaming data from multiple sources?

y’

z’

x’

Y


VARIABLE

THREE Z

VARIABLE

ONE


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Company A

Company B

Company C(z’) Market Cap

(x’) PE Ratio

(y’) Change in Average % Change

CENTER POINT

Company D

Add objects for sources you want to track

Objects move in space and change shape reflecting changes in streaming data

Complexity in 2D is understandable in 3D

% CHANGE FROM PREV

CLOSE Z

Y

X G R O S S P R O F I T

STOCK

PRICE


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Company A

Company B

Company C(z’) Market Cap

(x’) PE Ratio

(y’) Change in Average % Change

CENTER POINT

Visualize real-time data from sources such as stock markets, point of sales systems, click streams from a million websites, etc.

Add categories and alerts…

Can we show even more data in this space?

Company D

% CHANGE FROM PREV

CLOSE Z

Y

X G R O S S P R O F I T

Predefined behaviors trigger alerts

STOCK

PRICE


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Colors and Textures Show You Even More

• Sysco is wide and flat. WW Grainger is tall and narrower – name those shapes• Grainger has much higher ratio of net tangible assets to total assets• Sysco has total liabilities four times as large as Grainger and net tangible assets slightly smaller than those of Grainger• Lawson has asset structure like Grainger – similar but much smaller

Now let’s Increase our engagement and concentration…


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A Gameful Encounter with Big Data

Engage our senses with

sight, sound, touch

Is big data analytics fun and games or serious work [or both]?


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Learn More

Serious Games: The Future of Work, O’Reilly Media, 2012 (available summer 2012)

Presentation excerpted from my newest book:

Join the conversation on my CIO magazine blog

“Doing Business in Real Time”http://blogs.cio.com

/blog/doing-business-in-real-time

Center for Systems Innovation[c4si]

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Serious Games

The Future of Work

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