John Battelle Quotes

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I think wearables in general have, as their best calling, to better understand our current state and needs and to express those back to the world.

You're going to see this 'Internet of things' start demanding network performance and making the networks much more aware of what is on top of them.

Devices are getting smarter - your television, your car - and that means more data spread around. There needs to be a fabric that connects all these devices. That's what we do.

Over the years, online, we've laid down a huge amount of information and data, and we irrigate it with networks and connectivity, and it's been worked and tilled by unpaid workers and governments.

The people who are thinking most about big data right now are corporations and governments.

Big data has been used by human beings for a long time - just in bricks-and-mortar applications. Insurance and standardized tests are both examples of big data from before the Internet.

I collect a lot of data. We all do.

The Internet of Things tell us that a lot of computer-enabled appliances and devices are going to become part of this system, too: appliances that you use around the house, that you use in your office, that you carry around with yourself or in the car. That's the Internet of Things that's coming.

Every sector of society looks at digital analytics in a productive way. Limiting my ability to use them is just unacceptable. And by the way, Congress conducts polls using traditional methods. No one is using social media analytics as a substitute for that.

As more and more of our world becomes part of the wireless network, I see the mobile phone becoming a central command station for everything around us.

Every day we have teams looking for new data sets.

Because of the Internet of Things, we're all going to be connected.

Sharing data allows us to research, communicate, consume media, buy and sell, play games, and more. In return, businesses develop products, scientists undertake research, and governments use data to enable voting, inform policies, collect tax, and provide better public services.

So we do software for watches, for phones, for TV sets, for cars. And some of these take a long time to catch on.

Over the next ten years, everything that has a cord is going to have data in it.

I envision a world where our smartphone is central to our lives in a non-obtrusive and intelligent way.

If research can help us discover cures for diseases, it surely can improve a football team. Whether it's data analysis or biomechanics, it can give you an edge - and I'd be a fool if I didn't want that edge.

No entity in the history of the world has collected more information about you than Google. My office wants to know what exactly Google does with all of the information it's gathering.

Like two sides of the same coin, you can't separate IoT from underlying business processes.

Our data has been harvested, collected, modeled, and monetized - sometimes sold on as raw data, and sometimes licensed just for advertisers to be able to target us.

My mission is to bring the power of big data insights and analytics to every company.

The bigger a data set that you have, the more polls, the more surveys that you have that people undertake, the more accurate your models are going to be. That's just a fact of data science.

For me myself, I feel it's always interesting gathering data. I have my team who do that. I think they feed me through specific things that I might find valuable.

We are focusing on four vertical markets - utilities, public sector, large enterprises, and transportation. And, we are building a software business as well that includes analytics, security, IOT platforms, and AI.