 Hey, how you doing? This is Darryl O'Donnell from Technology & Ops. I'm actually just sitting in the hotel room in Halifax, Nova Scotia, prepping for a meeting But I just wanted to make a quick recording to bring out another topic for senior leaders That being big data. Big data is everywhere It's actually a fairly popular band on the alternative scene too. What big data is hitting the IT world As a phrase as a whole way of being right now So you're hearing it everywhere much like the other trends I do talk about But I want to let you know why you should care and what it is you need to know to do your job as a senior leader Because as a as a chief or senior person in a first responder organization in emergency management in a security organization There are some angles and pieces you need to understand so that you can enable your team The biggest thing behind big data is you can use analytics. You'll hear that phrase to analytics Well, it's analysis, but it's the key here is that the analysis that's being done under big data scenarios Really is there to discover things that you would never have found out without it It's very easy to think well, we would have figured that out in the first place But when you're literally looking at millions or billions of points of data the human brain simply cannot connect some of these dots There are a lot of non-obvious trends That's a huge thing when you're trying to do criminal analysis when you're trying to find patterns The computers are able to spot these patterns at simply the humans. We just can't do directly. That's a huge thing right there One of the things you also need to understand is in order to do analytics You need to have the data collected a lot of groups try to dive into Big data get the big analytics going but they don't have any data So you got to make sure that your team is actually gathering something you probably this would be a hard one to screw up I guess but I've seen a few cases where people just assume that they have this new analytics tool and boom They have the big data, but they don't they have an empty data set So that's something you do have to consider make sure that we do has data collected You may not be able to go back historically, especially when you're getting to the paper world But as you collect more and more stuff in your RMS's in your CAD systems You'll have the ability to reach in and do some more analysis But also on the collection side is a couple of angles you need to really be worried about Really privacy is one of the biggest ones Privacy in not in Canada in the EU is huge in the States is not as big but still a pretty big issue In that you need to consider the privacy of the individuals of the citizens who if you're if you're tracking any information on them As well as whether that information falls within your mandate Because if you don't figure it out the courts will We're seeing cases that are just starting to hit because big data is relatively new Where there are changes needed whether that be that data are you know big data analytics are gathered But immediately purged within days or hours or weeks Depending on the mandate of a group so that you can't go back and do the post analysis But you can do the real-time type of stuff. That's more important on the you know the real-time now Situation but you may not be able to dive into the data because the courts have indicated you can't keep it forever Something you got to think about because as you deal with big data and analytics That's an angle that a lot of analytics don't need to worry about a lot of the big data solutions Don't have to worry about it if you have to purge this information It's something that might be a little bit more unique on the on the first responder side of the world on the security side of the world When you're talking with your CIO who's going to be the one who deploys it in the IT group You need to consider a couple of things they're gonna want you're gonna want to know what do we already have you may already have something in the house that is Very much like that tool you saw at a conference that some one of your partner showed you one of the your peers Talked about how their solution is great find out from the CIO what the business tools are that you already have That's typical where these tools are coming out of they're coming out of IBM Cognos is a great example of one of the one of the BI tools business intelligence that choose on the big data and spits out a lot of really cool answers You're also going to need to consider the extra costs for tools You may have to ramp up more analysts because as big data gets better and more automated You may have fewer specialized analysts, but more general analysts who are using these algorithms that some wizard created You need to consider the storage cost because stores start to ramp up really big when you're doing big data You also need to consider all the security and privacy issues the security side of things Well, you have a big data sets a big target if the privacy side becomes what can you? What are you allowed to do comes back to that mandate question your CIO is going to want to understand this But also are you following the privacy laws in your jurisdiction? And I mentioned earlier that you need to consider this data retention And that's actually want to talk about scrubbing data because your CIO is going to want to know about that That's something you're going to want to tell them because again, they may not think about it The retention is important. They're going to think about that is it five seven ten years But if they have to destroy data, you really need to understand that ahead of time Because if there are legal mandates on how you destroy data and or that you have to prove that you cannot access data That once it was destroyed that's going to impact the solution your CIO and the IT department are going to build for you Just want to say thanks. 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