CIO New task: Make large data visible as a movie

&http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/37954.html ">nbsp; When I started writing about the data presentation, I remembered the first word I heard many years ago: "Opportunity is a ready mind." I may have learned it by chance in a compulsory science class, but it is more likely to be read in a novel. Through Google, I know that this quote is from Louis Pasteur, a preface to the book "Dans les aesthetising de l ' observation," from his field of observation.

But now, decades have passed, this world of data has made it clear to me that a prepared mind may have a negative tendency to be an enemy of discernment. I'm thinking that a prepared mind may be too prepared for too long to produce fresh ideas. This is called incorrigible, and more seriously, once our minds are shaped, the danger point may be overlooked.

CIOs are also given the challenge of dealing with more difficult challenges-using data as a means of driving business decisions-while working on how to collect, store, analyze, and display large data. How can IT organizations leverage large data? After a year of testing with experts and CIOs, I began to think that this effort required CIOs to enter a field that few people ever touched: the movie.

Tom Davenport recently brought me some vibrations of thought, and he clearly explained in his forthcoming book on analysis that the work of CIOs and Business Intelligence (BI) is not simply a presentation of data, but rather a way to influence business decisions. In his survey of best practices for displaying data, Davenport's most impressive group made a video of "a very simple financial reporting application." This is probably the way of the future, he said if you look at how we convince ourselves to do something else, buy a product, entertain yourself-think of all the smart cats that have been watching YouTube recently-unless we are willing to communicate the results of the analysis through video, it cannot be kept for long.

This case is particularly persuasive for displaying large data. A simple diagram can draw another with one thing--as I learned from Algebra class. Adding color may be able to get three variables in one diagram. But big data, as the chief scientists from PayPal to Jinrongjie say, may contain hundreds of variables that are changing over time and space. Universal Cat video! What kind of data display to figure this out.

Of course, if you already know what you're looking for, thank you for your prepared mind, except to leave information related to a few variables, you just filter out all the other information. But what if you don't know what you're looking for, and if you already have petabytes of data, you want to find new relationships from them rather than simply supporting or refuting old ideas? If you want to see a way to deal with data without bias-as I know, that's the top goal of Big data analysis (the Holy Grail)-there's no alternative to word for word. But how?

I think that's why there is a film, and why financial performance through video can give such a deep impression to seasoned analysts like Davenport. The film shows three dimensions; it lets us see the passage of time. Colors, textures, and even sound applications depict more variables for us. The world as we know it is three-dimensional, and sound movies can be seen as real experiences.

Now CIOs have to make big data look like the real world. Are all the tools available to represent the existing tool? Of course not; Davenport's view is that they are quite immature. But every computer-system animation We see shows us a way forward. James. The software tools that Cameron uses in avatar, like Autodesk Maya and ZBrush, can find a way to get into the CIO's components. Light, camera, start! Take me, I'm looking for big data in the movie. As far as I guess the business is looking forward to. As another philosopher said, observation can make you learn a lot.