Dan Rosser

PA Consulting Group

‘Demystifying Big Data. Real world applications of Big

Data’

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Demystifying Big Data. Real world applications of Big Data

“I saw a different world today which was as exciting

as it was affordable”

Dan Rossner – PA Consulting Group

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It’s never been easier to try out bold ideas quickly and efficiently

Although data challenges are growing, emerging technologies lower the barriers to start innovating:

• Quick to start

• Hard problems already solved

• Cost-effective to run

• Runaway success (or failure) is no problem

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PA and Google helped the Met Office to re-engage with its users by delivering an award-winning website for sharing crowd-sourced weatherBusiness challenge

· Re-engage with neglected weather communities

· Explore feasibility of cloud in Met Office

· Trial public observations in forecasting

How Cloud Platform helped

· Rapid innovation and launch of new service

· Social platform with global reach to 150+ countries

· Hybrid cloud architecture

· Low cost infrastructure

wow.metoffice.gov.uk

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Delivering an award winning Integrated Intelligence Tool for NHS England

NHS England manage the healthcare of 60m people in England with £100bn budget

They need a single source of the truth.

• 100 indicators from 15 source systems

• Ability to drill down from national level to organisation

• Agile build – delivered in 5 months with first release of 30% in week 4.

• Live on 2nd April to 1,800 registered users

• Highly scalable to 10,000 users

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Cloud Accelerates the Discovery of value : Prescription 2 billion data set

NHS issues over 700 million prescription items per year to 60 million UK patients

Analysis of this data is typically expensive and time consuming.

PA did the following:

• Loaded data for 2009,2010 and 2011 covering 2.2 billion prescriptions

• Structured the data to allow analysis

• Built a business intelligence solution for real time data exploration in days.