ODI Fridays: Burn the digital paper! A call to arms, by Francis Irving of ScraperWiki
Nearly 70 years of computers, and most of us stil…
November 25, 201322m 33s
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Show Notes
Nearly 70 years of computers, and most of us still just use them as a fast version of paper. What is code? What is data? Teaching everyone to program, restructuring organisations … artificial intelligence. What will it take to make “data” ten times better?
Francis Irving, CEO of ScraperWiki, will take us through examples from working with international agencies and businesses, with a shot of Stafford Beer and a soupçon of PDFs.
Francis spoke on Friday the 22nd of November at the Open Data Institute in London.