Review 2013 Big Data all the joys and sorrows show

Now, in the data age, big data has become the biggest thing, nothing is more important than big data. Time to go back to June, Snowden 41 slides, let the big U.S. Data monitoring project "Prism" surface, chilling.

2013 by some experts called "Big data year." The optimism and anxiety of the big data age are fully demonstrated during the year.

Big change

Everyone must speak with the data except God. Not only people, the whole world is becoming more and more data. Information revolution in-depth development, such as the tide of data surging, the number of large, kind of miscellaneous, the oncoming speed, unprecedented.

And that's just the overture. The bigger wave is behind.

The big data is not only "the Industrial revolution of data", but also an important part of the great change of technology and industry, which is a kind of description of the future trend and new characteristics of the times. Large data is an important driver of this great change and will be a key resource for promoting economic and social transformation. Collecting, analyzing and applying the huge data of exponential growth will give birth to innovation, provide new development opportunities for all walks of life and bring about changes in people's daily lives.

Industry insiders believe that the nature of large data is not "big", but with a new thinking and technology to analyze massive data, revealing the hidden human behavior and other patterns, thereby creating new products and services, or predicting future trends.

Large competition

Large data is seen as the next frontier for innovation and productivity promotion, and is becoming one of the elements of national competitiveness, and is increasingly being valued worldwide. Many Governments have increased their support for large data development, even to the height of national strategies.

In the United States, big data has been transformed from hot words into key projects. Last March, the United States government announced a 200 million-dollar large data research and development plan, which was released in November this year with a number of large data-research projects involving government, private companies and research institutes at all levels. The National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation and so on, have been commented on as the U.S. Big Data Strategy version 2.0.

In Britain, the government still extravagantly big data, despite the economic downturn and fiscal tightening. In early 2013, the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills announced that it would inject 800 million pounds into the development of 8 categories of High-tech, including 189 million pounds (about $300 million) for large data projects.

Big data in China have also started to enter the "fast track", the government, enterprises and research institutes are in multi-directional layout. Ministry of the Internet "Twelve-Five" development planning, information processing technology as one of the four key innovative technology projects, including mass data storage, data mining and so on. With the release of 4G licences at the end of 2013, higher-speed networks will bring greater data flow and strategic resources for governments and businesses.

Big challenge

"Prism" exposure this year, let people see the big data age to maintain national information security, protect the privacy of the serious challenges faced.

The prism Gate has made governments aware of the importance of "data sovereignty" and the consequences of relying on individual countries for the core technologies of networks and telecommunications. The need to accelerate independent innovation to protect "data sovereignty" has become a consensus among some countries.

How to stay sober and rational, creative and creative in the big data hits the same test for both the state and the individual.

Experts point out that large data is expected to play an important role in China's economic restructuring and upgrading, a huge population base, the size of the economy and demand, means that China's development of large data has a unique advantage. But it should also be seen that large data has low value density characteristics, mining, analysis and other technical requirements. China can not only be satisfied with the "World Data Center", should prevent the concept of speculation, strengthen independent innovation, forward-looking system design and other layout, homeopathy, the "Chinese creation" from the opportunity into reality.

We should also be wary of the tendency of "superstitious" large data, and recognize the potential flaws and deficiencies of large data analysis. Psychologists believe that the model of large data creation will bind people to the options provided by the algorithm, and too much reliance on large data analysis may constrain innovation. American internet activist Parize called "Internet Filter": Although the Internet personalization brings convenience, it will confine people to the "bubble" of their past behavior patterns, unable to touch the vast amount of information brought by the lack of as much as possible.

Comments：

"The past, all the prelude" to describe the past 2013 is the most appropriate. The big Data era of the 2013 is over, and the big Data era of 2014 is coming, no matter in the small data age or large data age, exploration and innovation should not give up, to meet the coming new era of large data, confidence is essential.