The data enables Storm Hawk to provide maps of weather systems just four miles wide.
Open data enables accountability: it is difficult to conceal something if the facts are there for all to see.
It is consumers who pay for energy now and will in future demand the new energy services that better data enables – from automated thermostats to electric vehicles.
Big data enables publishers to work with major retailers and FMCG companies to tailor messaging, either in print at community level.
The data enables Tesco to put the right products in the right stores and target promotions accurately – insight that helped Tesco usurp Sainsbury's as market leader in 1995.
Open data enables unprecedented large scale collaboration on efforts to clean up, link together, deliver and represent all different kinds of information.
Today the availability of abundant data enables companies to cater to small niche markets anywhere in the world.
Over time the accumulative collection of sound data enables the system to identify small and more difficult leaks, at the same time raising an alarm when new leaks appear.
Open data enables Google to respond to searches for real-time events better, Spector says, giving the example of searches for 'tsunami' on Google maps shortly after a tsunami warning was issued last year.
That information, in combination with vehicle speed data, enables the microprocessor to determine when to adjust damping and activate hydraulic pistons that act on the suspension's springs.
Chris Soghoian, principal technologist at the American Civil Liberties Union, said the data enables US intelligence to find the location of suspects even if their communications are encrypted.
