Big Data age who wins

The big data age is raging.

It is believed that many people are impressed by the 2009 outbreak of swine flu in the United States, who announced that the outbreak of swine flu in the United States and Mexico constitutes an ' internationally-affected public health emergency '. After 2003 years of SARS scare, the Chinese people first heard of the term "swine flu" expressed concern, but did not know how the fierce outbreak of the disease later why not.

The Big Data Age, published in 2013, unlocks the mystery that big data technology has helped the U.S. public health system. Google, with its public Internet search data and its invention of data prediction models, can be completed in a very short period of time to complete the traditional epidemiological survey of the infection and transmission routes to lock the work of the epidemic, to fight the epidemic to win valuable time.

Another shocking event is the 2013-year Bitcoin impact. Some people regret missing the property market and missed Bitcoin, some people proud to "despise" the behavior of the trend of speculation, but do not know that Bitcoin is not a property market or to make money speculation so simple. Although it is hardly welcomed by all the governments in the world, it is a revolutionary new thing, has the potential to challenge the current financial order, social order and human knowledge system, and is one of the representative works of the great data age.

Now, from scientific research, culture, education to production, business and political life, inadvertently seems to have been large data shrouded, and even appeared the data overlord to replace the grain, oil overlord to master the world trend, a great "suddenly like the spring breeze, thousand trees million pear blossom" feeling.

However, the big data is not the icing on the cake, the tool that can be used, it is a situation that we need to deal with, for the backward or underdeveloped society which is not ready to meet its arrival.

Why the Big Data age

The so-called large data age, you can understand this: data becomes an independent concept and phenomenon, which has important influence on production and life, and even becomes the key factor and important resource to determine the success or failure of competition, and it becomes the source of innovation. Data Technology quantifies Everything, mining value from the impossible, and huge data resources pouring out of the economy, Cultural, social and other values, but also led to unprecedented such as privacy, freedom, human rights, security crisis. A new technology and industrial revolution was nurtured and pushed forward by the big data age.

The large data age is an upgraded version of the Information Age, and it is the common result of information technology development and social informatization construction.

Data storage, data warehousing, data mining, data presentation, cloud computing, Internet of Things, machine learning, a series of technological advances, so that the value of large data can be presented, the world of large data can be established. However, the construction of social informatization, including information culture and information system, is the breeding ground of large data age.

Can come back some time node: 1938 Claude Shannon First Information theory; 1946 The Birth of mankind's;1955 computer ENIAC the "Freedom of Information Act", 1965 was adopted; 1974 American Association for Information and Industrialization, Paul Zekoski proposed the concept of information literacy In 1980, Alvin Toffles published the concept of "information society" in the publication of the third Wave, and the United States Government proposed the information Superhighway plan in 1993; The National Library and Education Communication and Technology Association of the United States developed American Students ' information Literacy standards in January 2009, signed in the first day of Obama's inauguration. The Government should be transparent, "the government should be participatory" and "the government should be a multi-party collaboration", an important 3-point document "Transparent and open government", by 2013 year of World Big data.

Big Data age who wins

Once there is a saying: who mastered the grain of the world, who mastered the oil who mastered the world. In the face of the big data age, it was asserted that whoever mastered the data would master the world. Big Data age, who will be data overlord, data darling? I think that should be the following three types of institutions, organizations or individuals:

One is to do a more adequate social democratization, information construction, and steadfast to the objective, accurate, adequate data accumulation and data work system construction of the Government;

The second is to control the source of data, the company that holds the analysis technology, such as: Google, Amazon, Gartner, and the commercial companies that catch up with the front bands, such as: Apple, MOOCs, nutshell ...

Third, all have data awareness, can find ideas and methods, with data quality, and sensitive to action of individuals and organizations.

Unfortunately, for the vast majority of us, from all levels of government to the Organization to individuals, as if each step behind a few shots, are looking at other people's scenery, or even the scenery did not feel. We seem to have been in the trend of speculation, passive learning knowledge, and not to understand the concept and knowledge behind the characteristics of the times and the spirit of the Times.

When others are trying to build up data and data-building systems, our governments are modifying or tampering with data for political performance, and while others are building transparent and open data-working mechanisms, we are making society an isolated island of information in order to uphold our own sectoral interests. While others are arguing about building a nationwide free wireless network, our management is arguing about WiFi charges, micro-credit fees ...

Compared with the previous scientific and technological revolutions, we have never been so close to the forefront of technology, but in the social system and cultural construction is far apart. China is a potential data powerhouse, but it has a long way to go to become a data powerhouse. However, as Victor, who is hailed as the "prophet of the Big data age," said in the big Data Age: "The change comes fast, the human race has no time to adapt, probably only a few years." This, undoubtedly should be one of the most important problems that people think and face today.