Chu Hengming: Reform and start "Big data" is an opportunity

Shiji's "Big Data" is named "a Brief History of government information in the United States" or more appropriate. This is not to let us think, with the "Big data" related technology, principles, China's reform to start or more in-depth, more thorough.

Mr Obama is a great president, at least in the opinion of the authors of the big data, by the determination of whether to enforce government information publicly.

"Big Data" is the main line is how the U.S. government to promote information disclosure, and the use of tools is "big data." The first presidential memo, signed by President Obama in 2009, was the "Transparent and open government", and the second presidential memo was the Freedom of Information Act. We really hope that the Chinese government will have the same belief, Obama said: "In order to lead a new era of open government, in the face of information, the first reaction of government agencies must be open." All government agencies should use the latest technology to promote information disclosure, which should be timely. ”

Shiji "Big Data", named "American Government Information public history" or more appropriate, nor let us think, with the help of "big data" related technology, principles, China's reform to start or really more in-depth, more thorough.

Perhaps we can understand that, Shiji that the United States is not only the first to participate in the framework of the "Big Data" era, the Chinese government has no reason not to follow suit.

Company level: Nurturing data scientists

Big data is generated because of the ubiquitous sensors and microprocessors today. We are moving into the era of pervasive computing, where all mechanical or idea equipment can leave traces of data. These devices and the people who use it communicate with each other through the Internet and form another huge data source.

We can also understand large data in this way. The composition of software consists mainly of program (also known as code) and data (or database). The relationship between the program and the data is like the engine and the fuel, all the programs are data-driven; The data is to the program, like the blood to the body, and once the blood stops flowing, the person loses his life and the code stops running.

"Big Data" is "big", not just in its "capacity of the Big", also, human beings can "analyze and use" data in a large number of increase, through the exchange of data, integration and analysis, human can discover new knowledge, create new value, bring "big knowledge", "Big Technology", "big profit" and "Big development".

At the corporate level, the data is becoming the core asset of the enterprise and may be counted as a balance sheet in the future. China's top three internet companies, Tencent, Alibaba and Baidu, the three companies that have the most data assets, Tencent has the largest network communications data, Alibaba has the largest network trading data, and Baidu has the largest search data assets.

Any organization, to grasp the opportunity of large data, must do a good job in several aspects. For example, to collect and develop specific tools, you need to have selected analysis software to use it to excavate the meaning of the data. But perhaps most importantly, any organization needs talent to analyze big data. These people are known as "data scientists" who set the strengths and expertise of hackers and quantitative analysts.

Harvard Business School Visiting professor, renowned consultant Thomas? H. Davenport in the preface to the Big data, many companies are aware of the rare opportunities of the "Big Data" era and have now taken action. GE, for example, will invest 1.5 billion of billions of dollars in building a global software and Analysis Center in the San Francisco Bay Area as part of its global research and development organization. The centre is to employ at least 400 data scientists, and now has 180 downfield.

National level: Early action, heavily deployed

How to make use of big data in the business field, "Big data" is not very much, the content is less than 1/10 of the book. "Big Data" is actually a history of more than half a century of information openness and technological innovation in the United States.

The road of government information openness in the United States is the main body of the book, but in reading it is always brought to the reflection of China's present reality. "Big Data" by telling the United States more than half a century of information open, the history of technological innovation, with a unique classical case, such as Obama's ambition to build an "unprecedented open government", the twists and turns of public finance, the waves of universal health Care Reform Act, and the Hundred years tangle of identity card, etc., have discussed the data innovation to the citizens, the government , the challenges and changes brought about by society. It can be said that almost every business, each new legislation, a new plan, there will be a database and information management system corresponding to it, it is easy to imagine that these challenges will be in China one day.

How to achieve transparency of government information, "large data" provides a comprehensive, readable, read-resistant reference samples.

The "Big data" strategy at the national level needs to be done early and heavily deployed. Of course, the big Data strategy will be a castle in the open, not for the ultimate purpose of information disclosure. Huge data assets are needed for financial support. 1996, the U.S. federal government's annual IT budget is 18 billion U.S. dollars, more than 10 years has been rising, 2010, has been as high as 78.4 billion dollars. The U.S. government has claimed that it is the largest information technology consumer in the world, thanks to its huge investments over successive years.

March 2012, in order to further advance its "big data" strategy, Obama's senior adviser, President of the Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee, Holdren on behalf of the Ministry of Defence, the Department of Energy and other 6 federal departments announced that will invest 200 million of dollars immediately launched the "Big Data Development Research program" to promote large data extraction, storage, analysis Sharing and visualization. Holdren said in his speech: like the American History of Supercomputing and Internet investment, this large data development research program will have far-reaching impact on American innovation, research, education and national defense.

There are foreign media forecasts that 2013 will be the world's largest data year. There is no doubt that this coming data revolution will bring unprecedented innovations and challenges to the development model of enterprises and countries.

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)