Wearable devices make "Big Data" even more powerful

"Big Data" is a word that has become increasingly popular at home and abroad in recent years. Whether you really understand it or not, when chatting with people, you can't talk about "new media" or "Big Data", it's so weak.

However, just as it is still a kind of talk, most Chinese people still stay in the State of "Big Data. The real application of big data in China is slow, and the corresponding criticism is also widespread in foreign countries.

To some extent, "Big Data" is not a new concept. Huang renyu, a historian, once pointed out that ancient China lacked digital manipulation. The implication was that in Europe, people had learned and managed political, economic, and commercial affairs through digital earlier. Even in contemporary society, this core thinking has not changed. The main difference between the current "Big Data" and modern digital management lies in the application of electronic computers (which means to process data more intelligently) and the development of the network (this means that the public interconnection of data becomes possible ). As a senior media expert in China said,"Big Data" is actually a smart decision-making version of Digital Governance in open society.

On March 13, August 31, Baidu's big talk Stage 3 "big data opens the future" was held in Beijing. Its keynote speaker was Alex Pentland, director of the MIT human power laboratory and pioneer in wearable devices ). At the scene, he gave a series of speeches on "wearable devices and Big Data Collection" to share his awareness of "Big Data.

It can be said that Professor Peng Tran's speech can indeed subvert Chinese people's perception of "Big Data" in a large scale. As he said at the beginning, "Big Data" not only refers to search engines, social media,The devices that input data are the key to the "Big Data" application. Only after the data is available can we control the data.Apparently, wearable devices are a brand new data collection device.

In the discussion of the "Big Data trap", there is a point of thought: At present, the main body of big data is still on the traditional statistics, at most, with the participation of the mobile Internet, people's location and time consumption data are recorded more accurately, and such data is not fresh.

But in the View of Professor Peng Tran, who has been researching and developing wearable devices for more than 20 years, innovation is coming soon. As he described in his speech, wearable devices use sensors to capture not only the body temperature, heartbeat, and other health data, but also the excitement of neurons, so as to identify people's emotions to a certain extent. With the participation of wearable devices, data sources have been greatly expanded.If "Big Data" becomes smarter by joining electronic computers, wearable devices will undoubtedly make "Big Data" easy to understand.This is enough to become another big difference between the modern "Big Data" and Its prototype.

In his speech, Professor Peng LAN demonstrated the countless possibilities of "Big Data" supported by wearable devices. From personal health management to urban traffic management, to enterprise efficiency control, big data seems to be useless. However, when asked about what kind of wearable devices he uses, Professor Petland admitted that he did not wear any wearable devices because the existing wearable devices are immature, he did not reach his ideal standards. "Currently, the information provided by wearable devices is not what I really want. In my opinion, the perfect wearable device means that I can know what the other party is thinking without communication ."

Under a brilliant vision, this may be a cruel reality. Even the absolute authority of wearable devices is not satisfied with the current situation. Not to mention that in the wearable device tests displayed on the site, the performance of almost all participating devices was unsatisfactory.

Does this mean that wearable devices and the "Big Data" they want to change are absurd? Don't be pessimistic. Another implication of the internal consistency between "Big Data" and digital management is that it always exists. And is changing humans.Rather than discussing whether the concept of "Big Data" is novel, it is better to discuss whether it is never outdated. Although it has never been omnipotent, it is absolutely indispensable.Just as there have been several revolutions in human ground transportation, but there are almost no changes in the form of wheels-big data is not a new vehicle, but the constant round wheel.

Wearable devices make "Big Data" even more powerful