Big data makes "possible" happen: Technology changes Life

The most representative temperament of large data is to collect and analyze user information from various terminals and applications, and to gain more opportunities through intelligent analysis of organization or research team. The fastest growing region is no doubt a digital analysis, and some experts even believe that if you are a data analyst, you can almost enter any field you want (or any role you want). TNW published a Niall Harbison article, "Big data makes possible" realize: Technology changes life, lists the three models of big data-led innovation, and shares many creative businesses. Among them, Pebble watch than Google time much earlier, but there are many design ideas overlap, and sleepshirt is based on large data sleep control became possible.

Undoubtedly, this creates a new pattern of application. For example, companies can keep up with the trend of food prices in third world countries, the Government and the health care sector can predict the outbreak cycle, health and exercise of the self-tracking, and to predict more closely related to our lives in the timely information. This information comes from more terminals and applications, PCs, notebooks, smartphones, tablets, automobiles, watches and even glasses. One day you will find that all traces of life can be collected and analyzed and applied in different ways.

Data Analysis (self-analysis)

The first is the data individual analysis (self-analysis)! Now that Nike run is sweeping the world, helping you calculate exactly how calories per kilometer burns, Mood Panda helps you accurately track your mood swings and control your emotional ups and downs. (These projects are also being done at home by teams.) The former Microsoft Cloud Accelerator first phase of a creative team of products has landed in Japan. The latter in the fourth session of China's cloud computing conference, there are companies to participate in the registration, but have not seen the landing information. ）

In fact, the only purpose of these products or apps is to aggregate data that has been unnoticed or not collected to reflect its intrinsic value. For example, quantify weight loss indicators and control mood changes, to avoid the things that cause your negative emotions.

Save on expenses (saving money)

The second is to cut spending. Intelligent TV, smart home, intelligent building and other concepts have been raised, but who in practice? Opower may be a good example. Its essence is the Home Intelligence Center controller. Set the temperature of all machines according to your life habits, and if you are going to stay out overnight, use the application to minimize or close the temperature, and then adjust the relevant temperature when you are ready to go home. In this way, all necessary expenses will be reduced. Beijing family has heating in winter, but for many families, it does not require 24 hours of heating. ）

And the Mint to help you monitor your wallet. Mint has been working on this direction since 2006, and has acquired Intuit in 2009. Its products and programs are to monitor all aspects of family support and make the necessary hints to help people reduce unnecessary or irrational consumption.

Onavo positioning is more accurate, installed on the iphone and Android phones, tells you which apps ate the data, and recommended some savings plans or more valuable alternatives to the actual data trail.

Smart objects

Third, smart objects. Under the guidance of the "Internet of things" idea, any great idea can be realized. Like the Sleep app. By entering sleep patterns and emotions to find the best time to fall asleep, one company is even groping for smart pajamas.

Smart pajamas, or called Sleepshirt, will actively collect your breathing and sleep patterns through the device, and the data will be uploaded to the server via the network and analyzed by a background algorithm. In this way, you can gain insight into the different time periods of deep sleep, wakefulness and dreaming, and then determine the time of sleep and wakefulness. This data has never been used so much.

More than that, on the Pebble website introduction, hangs a group of Pebble watches the picture. These graphs can be much earlier than the concept map of Google time. (Earlier today, TNW a new news that Google will launch a smart watch, code-named or "Google Time", which can be linked to Google account, and a variety of applications to integrate, support Google new features. The picture below, the operation of this watch is quite convenient, as long as pinch can realize the effect of calling home. From the information point of view, Google time may not have the telephone function and the GPS function. Pebble is a Kickstarter project that collects and analyzes your personal information to develop applications for different scenarios. Like when you're on SMS or on the phone, running, working, and so on. Does this concept have a lot of overlap with the design concept of Google watches?

Pebble Watch (on) and Google time concept map (bottom) in the design concept of a lot of similarities

Big Data brings exciting progress! It can carry out the collation and analysis of potential objects, potential data and potential behaviors. Of course, personal privacy does not belong to the scope of this article, or to prevent its progress. (Compile/Guo Shemei, revisers/Zhonghao)

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