The Whole World Is A DataSet > Huh?

It's a little crazy, but the story begins over 50 years ago with the launch of the first generation of U.S. government photo reconnaissance satellites.
And today, there's more than a handful of the great, great grandchildren of these early Cold War machines which are now operated by private companies. It's not in outerspace anymore either - if you travel anywhere, or to get down to the local level traveling on Valley Metro the sign clearly says "Smile you're on camera"

Some people call it BigBrother or surveillance or location-tracking, national security, or just "data" or "metadata" . . Got a good chuckle the other day while in Heat Sync Labs here on Main Street with a group of techies when one of them said to another - surprised and jumping up from his laptop - How many databases or datasets do you have?
The City of Mesa has recently announced via a Twitter Poston the City Manager's twitter account the internal appointments from City Hall to start the first Open Data Portal bringing transparency and accountability for the first time to benefit residents thanks to partiipating in Bloomberg's WhatWorksCities . . . keep an eye on that, dear readers.

 It's a little out-dated but take a look at this official TEDTalk 9:44 video seen by over 770,000 people with Dan Birkenstock that what posted in Fb 2014 + rated Informative, Ingenious
https://youtu.be/7pVPmmwSeJQ

Why you should listen and watch

Dan Berkenstock is an entrepreneur and engineer from Chicago, who fell into a classic tale of Silicon Valley innovation while taking a graduate entrepreneurship course at Stanford. That class led him and some others to found Skybox Imagingm[now part of Google], of which Berkenstock is executive vice president and chief product officer.




Here's a link to the complete transcript https://www.ted.com/talks/dan_berkenstock_the_world_is_one_big_dataset_now_how_to_photograph_it/transcript?language=en