1. Big Data & Analytics
What are the perspectives?
PD Dr. Dirk Solte
FAW/n, Ulm
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2. Opportunities & problems
Big potential for
• massive dematerialization
• green and inclusive growth
• total transparency
• technologically induced unemployment
Þ Huge challenge for politics
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3. Big Data & Analytics
Decisions based on
• statistical evidence / correlation
• law of large numbers
Þ From causation to correlation
Þ Experience: Black Swans do exist!
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4. Impact of KBC (OECD)
Productivity growth: 5% up to 10%
Þ -26,75 million up to -53,5 million jobs
Þ middle-class jobs at stake
Þ Opportunity: high-skill employment
growth
Þ up to 7 million new jobs? Or more?
Þ Challenge: how to fill employment gap?
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5. Correlation argument
Statistical evidence, that
paradigm of creative destruction
remains true
Þ positive impact on employment
assumed
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6. Challenge
• Massive growth of GDP
• Fair & balanced participation
• Current ecological footprint: 1.5 planets
Þ „Big transition“ required
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7. Causation argument
Qualitative reasoning, that
• this time is different
• „technological unemployment“ (Keynes)
Þ negative impact on employment
assumed
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