A former Microsoft executive, he came to Acxiom as C.E.O. in 2011, bringing the online industry's enthusiasm for data sharing to what had been a hermetic company.
Smarr's enthusiasm for data predates his obsession with his health; in the early nineteen-eighties, he helped persuade the National Science Foundation to fund the first national network of supercomputers, a precursor to the Internet.
Similarly, itemised phone bills let people monitor their spending more easily.As the cost of storing data plummets and the power of analytic tools improves, there is little likelihood that enthusiasm for data mining, in all its forms, will diminish.
Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, said that her union also had concerns about the president's enthusiasm for data systems, which she said could be misused, but that she would give the new administration the benefit of the doubt.
[cartoon id= lcu-2007-11-26"] Smarr's enthusiasm for data predates his obsession with his health; in the early nineteen-eighties, he helped persuade the National Science Foundation to fund the first national network of supercomputers, a precursor to the Internet.
These could just be tech-savvy early adopters, but if they are representative of the wider public, "that's very satisfactory," says Mr Horn-Smith.Evidence of growing enthusiasm for data services also comes from the regular Mobinet survey of 5,600 mobile users in 15 countries, carried out by A.T. Kearney, a consultancy, and the Judge Institute of Management at Cambridge University.
1 While there is huge enthusiasm for routine data, diffusing data analytics throughout a healthcare system requires more and more sophisticated ways of analysing the shadows on the wall, and ongoing communication between different groups of people with very different perspectives.
In all the enthusiasm for big data, it's easy to lose sight of the fact that all data is not created equal.
Consider the current enthusiasm for Big Data, with its ability to yield powerful insights based on correlations alone.
Overall though, a good regulatory writer must have enthusiasm for handling data; possess that quality and the rest comes relatively easily!
To achieve that, it will need to build enthusiasm for open data throughout government.
