I am overjoyed, proud and humbled to announce that at the recent 2016 RTCEUR (Now BILT) I was voted by delegates AND other presenters as this year's winner of the 20/20 Vision Competition; a Deep Dive into Big Data in AEC.[Edit 01/06/2017: I am also pleased to have been voted into the top 10 of speakers at said RTC(nowBiLT) Eur... with the cast of others who took top 10 honors, I can only smile that I would be considered along with them)
Below is a copy of the slide deck as individual images with some of my notes... NOT that I read them during my presentation of course; I presented partially extemporaneously, though I did a fair amount of research and had multitudes of conversations on point...
Thanks to all with special gratitude for some challenges provided by Julien Benoit, as I said during my presentation you and all of our friends not only inspire me to attempt greatness but you unknowingly helped me a great deal and you are my hero(s)!
The 6 minute, 40 second petcha-kutcha style offering was entirely from the heart and as I said, no notes involved ;) AND I WON 1st place!!! WooHoo!!!
Without further ado (except to again thank everyone who was kind enough, inspired enough to vote for me ♥♥♥) here we go; I hope you can read between the lines and get a feel for what I was trying to get at... I do understand this may be impossible, so look for the full class next year at BILT Europe 2017.
AEC DOES NOT USE BIG DATA!!! Yet.
DIGGING IN THE DIRT | WE’RE TALKING BIG DATA, NOT DADA
THINK
BIG, THINK LONG, THINK HARD...
THINK
INFINITY-BIG,
DARPA-HARD
AND
LONG-NOW
LONG.
INTENTION… MOVE WITH INTENTION
THE
DATA IN AEC IS NOT BIG OR BETTER YET, BIG DATA IS BARELY BEING TOUCHED BY A
RARIFIED FEW AT BEST.
ALL
BUILDING DATA FOR EVERY PROJECT ON EARTH IS BIG DATA. HAS ANYONE AGGREGATED
THAT DATA, LET ALONE OPENED IT UP AND USED IT?
UNIVERSAL
THINKING, BEYOND LOCAL AND GLOBAL, ANALOG AND DIGITAL.
THERE
ARE PATTERNS WE ARE MISSING
WE
NEED AN AEC DATA ANALITICS REVOLUTION | SIMILAR REASONS TO WHY “WE
NEED A SUBSTITUTE TELEVISION”
AS
AN EXAMPLE: DO YOU WANT TO BE SUSTAINABLE PLANET?
SUSTAINABILITY EXPERTS CALCULATE THAT A PLANET-WIDE
SUSTAINABLE, GMO FREE, ETC. CIVILIZATION CAN MAINTAIN ABOUT 2.75 BILLION PEOPLE…
WHERE DO THE OTHER 4 BILLION+ GO? WE SAY WE WANT “X”
BUT OFTEN DO NOT THINK REALISTICALLY NOR DIG DEEP ENOUGH
WHAT
IS THIS?
STATIC?
NOT
COMPLETELY!!!
ABOUT
1%, AS YOU MAY KNOW; IS BACKGROUND RADIATION FROM THE BIG BANG (SORRY DENIERS
;-)
PERSPECTIVE
IN WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR AND WHAT WE ARE LOOKING AT CAN MAKE OR BREAK A
BRANCH OF DEVELOPMENT
NOT SEEING HIDDEN DATA DOES NOT MEAN IT DOESN’T
EXIST, NOR DOES IT NEGATE THE FAR REACHING POSSIBILITIES THEREIN
DEEPER
ANALYSIS SHOWED US BIG BANG DATA
AEC
IS A SCIENCE WITH OPENINGS FOR BIG THINKERS WHO CAN LOOK AT THE PAST AND
PRESENT WITH A VIEW TO THE FUTURE, WITH A VIEW TO THE SPACES IN BETWEEN AND
AROUND WHAT IS KNOWN
THE
PATTERNS THAT EXIST, YET ARE UN STUDIED ARE THE FOCUS OF WHERE THIS RESEARCH
WILL FOCUS. PATTERNS OF OPERATIONS, USABILITY, FUNCTIONALITY…
MINING
DATA, FARMING DATA, CREATING, NURTURING AND HARVESTING DATA. THESE ARE SOME
PRIME FOCUSES AEC MUST PIONEER WITHIN OUR INDUSTRY.
WHAT
DOES “YOUR” DATA SAY, WHAT ABOUT THEIR
DATA…
WHAT
ARE THE DEEP QUESTIONS THE DATA IS ASKING AND NOT ASKING
PUTTING
NEW AND BIG DATA IN DESIGNERS HANDS WILL BE WHAT WILL ALLOW US TO GET TO WHERE
WE SAY WE WANT TO BE. ANALYTICS WILL BE KEY AND THE PROCESSES WILL BE NEW, SO
GET READY ;)
IF
WE ACKNOWLEDGE THAT WE DO NOT KNOW WE CAN THEN BEGIN TO ASK THE RIGHT
QUESTIONS. PRESUMING KNOWLEDGE (VALID OR NOT) WILL HINDER DEVELOPMENT OF THE
KNOWN AND UNKNOWN. THE BEST STARTING POINT IS OFTEN “I
DON’T
Know”
DATA,
BIG DATA AND POSSIBLE USES. PROBABLE QUESTIONS.
GENERATING INSIGHTS BEYOND THE STATUS QUO WITH NEW
ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES TO GO ALONG WITH OUR REVOLUTIONARY TECHNOLOGIES CAN BE
BROUGHT TO BEAR TO BRING AEC TO WHERE WE SAY WE WANT IT TO GO. WE MUST BE BOLD,
TAKE RISKS AND PERSEVERE 
KEEPING
AN OPEN MIND THAT DATA IS NEVER FIXED POINT (THOUGH UNDERSTANDING THAT IN ORDER
NOT TO BECOME PARALYZED BY THE DYNAMIC, EVER-CHANGING DATA STREAMS), WE DO USE
SUPPOSED AND TEMPORARY FIXED POINTS AND PROJECTIONS, AS IF THEY WERE FACTS, TO
HELP MAKE DECISIONS.
THIS
DOES NOT NECESSARILY MAKE DATA FACTUAL, NOR THE FACTS KNOWLEDGE, NO MATTER HOW
USEFUL
THIS
IS INTELLECTUALLY CHALLENGING YOU RIGHT NOW (I HOPE)…
PERSPECTIVE
WILL DICTATE THE VIEW OF WHAT IS OR ISN’T BIG…
AND FOR HOW LONG, ETC…
THE
MORE WE LEARN, THE LESS WE KNOW DUE TO ANSWERS OPEN UP EVEN LARGER QUESTIONS…
THIS IS THE BEAUTY OF TAKING A SCIENTIFIC APPROACH
TOLD YA ;)
WHAT
IS THE DATA I AM LOOKING FOR?
PAUL DOUGHERTY FOR INSTANCE, AND HIS SMART CITIES THINKING IS GETTING INTO TOUCHING
SOME OF THE BIG DATA IN AEC …AND MOST OF THE DATA IS NOT
ABOUT A, E OR C EXPLICITLY.
THE
BIG DATA IS IN WHOLISTIC SYSTEMS, INFRASTRUCTURES, SOCIO-ECONOMICS, SOCIETAL
PATTERNS….
THE PATTERNS THAT INHABITANTS OF AN OFFICE TOWER, OF EVERY OFFICE TOWER
CREATE…ARE THESE STUDIED BY DESIGN TEAMS? 
IF
(AND I KNOW WE DO) WANT TO USE DATA, EVEN BIG DATA, DO WE KNOW WHERE TO LOOK?
HOW
DO WE LOOK, WHAT THEN… COMPUTER SCIENCE CAN MARRY
BIG DATA TO AEC… ARE WE READY? ARE WE WILLING TO BE UNCOMFORTABLE AND
MAKE THE DIFFICULT DECISIONS THAT COMES WITH THE POWER THAT TRULY LEVERAGING
BIG DATA CAN ACHIEVE FOR US
ARE
WE WILLING TO USE SYSTEMS THAT MAY QUICKLY BECOME OUTMODED IN FAVOR OF NEW
METHODOLOGIES THAT WILL REQUIRE REVOLUTIONARY-SPEED REACTIONS OR WILL WE BE
MIRED IN EVOLUTIONARY-SPEED SLOW-GROWTH
WHAT
IS DATA
IN
BETWEEN DATA
WHAT
IS IN BETWEEN DATA
THE
SPACES IN BETWEEN KNOWN DATA POINTS AND DATA STORES ARE WHERE MOST
BREAKTHROUGHS WILL HAPPEN. WHERE ARE WE LOOKING, WHERE ARE THE INTERESTING BIG
QUESTIONS, WHAT ARE THE DEEP QUESTIONS OTHERS ARE NOT ASKING
THE
MORE DATA WE HAVE TO ANALYSE THE GREATER AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE WAY THINGS
TRULY ARE
BY
PUSHING OUR BOUNDARIES OF WHAT IS UNDERSTOOD WE WILL SEE QUANTIFIABLE RESULTS
IN THE QUALITY OF OUR DESIGNS AND THUS (HOPEFULLY, ULTIMATELY) THE WORLD AND
OUR SPECIES AS A WHOLE
HIDDEN
DATA IS EVERYWHERE BUT IF WE DON’T LOOK FOR IT WE
WILL NEVER FIND BENEFIT…
HIDDEN
CREATIVITY IS WHAT KEEPS DATA HIDDEN
HOW
DO WE UNCOVER THE UNASKED QUESTIONS
WHAT
DOES IT TAKE TO SEE WHAT WE CANNOT SEE, HOW WE CANNOT SEE? CREATIVE ANALYTICS
AND THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD IS KEY
FLEXIBILITY
OF DATA IS NOT ABOUT THE DATA, IT IS ABOUT OUR CAPACITIES TO EVALUATE AND
REINVENT OURSELVES IN THE FACE OF NEW DATA…
DATA
FLEXIBILITY IS PERHAPS ONLY INTERPRETIVE.
OUR
ABILITY TO INTERPRET DATA, MAKE PREDICTIVE ADJUSTMENTS TO PROCESSES AND TAKE
DEEP CREATIVE LEAPS MAKE DATA SEEM TO BE FLEXIBLE BUT IT IS ONLY OUR USE OF
DATA THAT IS TRULY FLEXIBLE. DATA IS DATA. PUTTING IT TOGETHER, THAT IS WHAT I
WANT TO ANSWER.
ONE
SIDE OF A SUCCESS IS ANOTHER’S FAILURE
IN
POKER THE RISK OF LOSS IS OFTEN MITIGATED BY CONSISTENTLY UN-EMOTIONAL PLAYING
OF THE ODDS, ETC. WINNING 3 OUT OF 5 TIMES USUALLY PROVES OVERALL SUCCESS FOR
INSTANCE.
DO
NOT BE AFRAID TO FAIL, THAT IS WHERE THE BIGGEST BREAKTHROUGHS OFTEN RESIDE.
TAKING
BOLD STEPS TO USING BIG DATA, OR ANY DATA INVOLVES RISK, BUT AS WE ALL PROBABLY
KNOW; NO RISK = NO REWARD
THE ONLY POTENTIAL WE HAVE TO ACHIEVE AEC
TRANSFORMATION IS TO TRAIN HARD AND ACT CREATIVLY, UNIQUELY
ONE
SIDE OF A SUCCESS IS ANOTHER’S FAILURE
IN
POKER THE RISK OF LOSS IS OFTEN MITIGATED BY CONSISTENTLY UN-EMOTIONAL PLAYING
OF THE ODDS, ETC. WINNING 3 OUT OF 5 TIMES USUALLY PROVES OVERALL SUCCESS FOR
INSTANCE.
DO
NOT BE AFRAID TO FAIL, THAT IS WHERE THE BIGGEST BREAKTHROUGHS OFTEN RESIDE.
TAKING
BOLD STEPS TO USING BIG DATA, OR ANY DATA INVOLVES RISK, BUT AS WE ALL PROBABLY
KNOW; NO RISK = NO REWARD
THE ONLY POTENTIAL WE HAVE TO ACHIEVE AEC
TRANSFORMATION IS TO TRAIN HARD AND ACT CREATIVLY, UNIQUELY
DEEP
DATA: DESCRIBED AS “digital information that
actually matters”
THE
FUTURE OF BIG DEEP DATA IN AEC WILL REQUIRE BREAKTHROUGHS IN TECHNOLOGY (WHICH
IS A GIVEN) AND WILL ALSO REQUIRE BREAKTHROUGHS IN HUMAN TECHNOLOGIES…
THE DEVELOPMENT OF “US”,
AS REASONING CREATURES TO BRING FORTH NEW MINDSETS THAT ARE AS YET UNKNOWN. ARE
WE UP TO IT? I TUST WE ARE AND NOW WE JUST NEED TO GET TO WORK…
REVOLUTIONIZING OUR PRESENT WITH EYES TO THE FUTURE TO CREATE A BETTER
CIVILIZATION THAN OUR PAST…
As
Plato said, "science is nothing but perception,"
THIS
IS THE CASE THAT AEC IS IN NEED OF A DATA REVOLUTION. EVOLUTION IS FAR TOO SLOW
FOR THE “MOORE’S LAW”
WORLD WE LIVE IN. IF THE PAST IS ANY INDICATION OF THE FUTURE THEN THIS QUANTUM
GROWTH IS NOT ONLY INEVITABLE BUT DESIROUS FOR THE FUTURE OF ALL PEOPLES OF THE
WORLD
