Opportunities in the big Data age

Core tip: We seem to have just stepped into the computer-Internet age, but have been embroiled in the wave of waves in the big data age. How to face the turbulent data age? Can China be the dragon that leads the world?

The positive innovation of Chinese private enterprises led by Alibaba not only led to the rapid development of thousands of entrepreneurs and small micro-enterprises, but also made a series of beneficial attempts to make full use of and excavate large data resources. The Chinese government faces a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to lead the people in the next 10 years to create a remarkable economic growth miracle!

We have Alibaba to encourage grassroots entrepreneurial platform, we have the Guangdong, Zhejiang and Jiangsu, such as social services innovation, we have from the international advanced experience and competitive pressure, we have no reason to doubt China's ability to lead the world in the big data age. Turning this ability into reality requires visionary leadership and the power of cooperation. With the combination of business, academia, government and media, the innovation spirit of the whole society is encouraged and released, we can make things better.

At the end of 2012, at a meeting of Tsinghua University, the paper briefly introduces the future development potential of large data from the aspects of enterprise and urban management.

Alibaba data Strategy

The establishment of cloud computing and the disclosure of data are Alibaba's 10 million small businesses, 100 million E-commerce practitioners, 1 billion consumers to create a platform. In this platform, Alibaba Group through its Alibaba, Taobao, Alipay and other companies resources, opened the entire e-commerce industry chain.

Wantong Industrial Co., Ltd. chairman Feng once said, can constitute a forward-looking force must be standing in the future arrangements today. Jack Ma, chairman of Alibaba Group, is such a man.

As early as six years ago, he was aware of the importance of data, although at the time was not clear specific uses, but he felt faint: it is time to start. And this predictive thinking is also today gradually let Alibaba become the leader in the data age.

According to Alibaba Research Center statistics, 2012 years Double 11 day, the cat and Taobao attracted 213 million independent users, the equivalent of 40% netizens participated in the carnival. In 2012 11th Zero 37 minutes 39 seconds, the cat 1111 shopping carnival payment treasure turnover exceeded 1 billion yuan.

According to the day's real-time transaction volume statistics, in 2 minutes, Alipay transactions reached 100 million, 13 hours to reach 10 billion, which has a very big impact on the server. For the early morning on the computer in front of the buyers ready to buy, many of the response "orders can not be landed can not open is the payment is not shown after the status of goods." And Alibaba Research Center developed platform "Poly Stone Tower", to ensure that the purchase order transactions 0 lost single, 0 fault.

Alibaba Group Research Center Research Department expert Zhang Ting introduced, this period gathers the merchant in the stone tower to complete the task very well, among them 6 business day's turnover is above 50 million.

However, Alibaba has put forward a more long-term and clear positioning. Quote the Zhang Ting on the summary: "Alibaba is far from reaching the big data, we still have a long way to go." In this process we are also driven by the business run, the volume of business after a lot of data precipitation down, and then we need to use the data platform to deal with some problems. When the data platform is driven, we want to be able to develop the data and then use the data to drive business progress. At present, we are actively using large data to find small and beautiful sellers, to encourage more people to come to Alibaba platform innovation, entrepreneurship. ”

Believe that there will be more and more rich innovation constantly emerge.

Smart city

Big Data This March became America's strategy, and received 200 million of dollars of financial support from the US federal government, which was matched with the 4个亿来 support of the Internet. There is no doubt that information systems and data strategies are essential to support a country's soft power construction.

With the development of society, more and more urban population brings great challenge to city management and service, and also brings energy pressure and environmental crisis. Originally, the competition of the state-unit is gradually transformed into the competition between cities. Kate Shiji, director of Asia Pacific Affairs, an intelligent decision maker in the United States, highlighted the significance of big data for smarter cities.

Intelligent city is the main carrier in the age of large data. China and the United States, there is no doubt in many places there is a gap, but from the city point of view, especially from the information technology point of view, this era provides us with an opportunity, Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou can actually be better than New York Boston, the era of competition has slowly become a city competition.

Shiji mentioned that the intelligent city is first and foremost an open city, which can guarantee the free flow of information and generate knowledge and wisdom on its basis. This is not just a technological innovation, but also a social innovation.

In October 2011, for example, the National Weather Service (NWS) installed sensors on 2000 passenger buses to collect temperature, humidity, dew, and illuminance along the way. The U.S. National Post Office (U.S postal Service) also plans to install sensors on the mail to collect community air quality, pollution index, and noise data during delivery.

Now the city's data began to diversify, there are three forms of expression.

The original is only information system data, that is, accurate data. Each kind of information system's data, each article has the concrete meaning and the value.

Then there was the emergence of social media in which the single data they formed might have no clear meaning, value, or data produced by the public. This part of the data is called fuzzy data, that is, its value is still to be confirmed.

The third part refers to the quasi value-added data, that is, this data and most of the data combined can produce value, this part of the data is mostly public data.

The value of data lies in integration, and unconformity is of no value. China still lacks transparent and detailed public basic data, but without these social basic data, many data cannot be effectively integrated, such as weather, population, geography, economic development indicators, social welfare, etc. The responsibility for data openness rests with the government.

Big data can talk about a lot of things that we can continue to focus on.