Wearable equipment allows "big data" to be doubled

"Big Data" is a word that has become more and more popular both at home and abroad in recent years. Whether you know it or not, you can't talk to people with "new media" or "Big Data".

However, as it is still more of a conversation, most Chinese still remain in a smattering of "big data". The domestic real application of large data is slow, and the corresponding criticism also like foreign general.

In a way, "big data" is not a new concept. Historian Renyu has pointed to the lack of word management in ancient China, which means that in Europe, people have been getting to know and manage politics, economics, business, and so much earlier. Even into contemporary society, this core thinking does not really change. The main difference between the current "big data" and the modern digital word management is the application of the electronic computer (which means more intelligent processing of data) and the great development of the network (which means that the public interworking of the data is possible). As one senior media person in the country said, "Big data" is actually a decision-making intelligent version of digital governance under open social conditions.

August 31, Baidu's big Talk the third phase of the big data open the future in Beijing, the keynote speaker is the director of the MIT Human Power Laboratory, wearable equipment pioneer Alex Pentland (Alex Pentland). At the scene, Puntland made a series of lectures on "wearable equipment and large http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/12240.html" > data collection, sharing his knowledge of "Big data".

It can be said that Professor Puntland's speech can indeed subvert the Chinese perception of "big data" on a large scale. As he said at the outset, "big data" refers not only to search engines, social media, the devices that input data, but the key to "big data" applications, and only then can we control the data. Apparently, wearable equipment is a brand-new data acquisition device.

In the discussion of the big data trap, there is a sense of thought: the main focus of the current large data, its main body is still in the traditional statistics, at most, with the participation of mobile Internet, the people's position, time consumption data have more accurate records, and this data is not fresh.

But Professor Puntland, who has been researching and developing wearable equipment for more than 20 years, seems to be innovating. As he described in his speech, wearable devices can not only collect health data such as body temperature and heartbeat, but can also capture the excitement of neurons to some extent to identify human emotions. With the participation of wearable equipment, the source of data has been greatly expanded. If the addition of electronic computers makes "big data" smarter, wearable devices will undoubtedly make "big data" ears and omniscient. This is enough to become another big difference between "big data" and its embryonic form.

In his speech, Professor Puntland showed countless possibilities for "big data" with the support of wearable devices. From personal health management to urban traffic governance, to enterprise efficiency control, big data can be doubled, seemingly omnipotent. However, when asked what wearable equipment he was using, Professor Puntland admitted that he had not worn any wearable equipment because the existing wearable equipment was immature and did not meet his ideal standards. "The information provided by wearable devices is not what I really want." I think the perfect wearable device, is not through communication I can know what the other person is thinking. ”

In the glorious vision, this may be a brutal reality, even if the absolute authority of wearable equipment, but also not satisfied with the status quo. Not to mention the performance of almost all the test equipment in the wearable equipment tests shown in the field is unsatisfactory.

So does this mean that wearable equipment and the "big data" it's going to change are absurd? There is no need to be pessimistic. Another implication of the intrinsic consistency of "big data" and digital management is that it persists. and is changing human beings. Rather than discussing whether the concept of "big Data" is novel, it is better to discuss whether it has never been outdated; Just as human ground transportation has happened several revolutions, but the shape of the wheel has not changed much--the big data is not to bring a new vehicle, but the constant round wheel.