Five examples of big data changing our lives

Five examples of big data changing our lives?

In the world of technology, we often talk about how to use big data to do big business. But in the book The Human Face of Big Data (to be published on June 20th, 165438+) written by Rick Smolan, a former photographer of National Geographic magazine and Time magazine, he tells some examples of how big data has changed our lives.

Smolan said that the significance of big data is no less than the Internet of 1993, but its social impact is greater. Here are five examples that are closely related to our lives:

Risk monitoring of patients with heart disease

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Michigan and a women's hospital have created a computer model, which can use ECG data of heart patients to analyze and predict the probability of heart attack in the next year. In the past, doctors only spent 30 seconds looking at the ECG data of users, and lacked comparative analysis of the previous data, which made doctors lack of pre-judgment on the recurrence of 70% patients with heart disease. Now, through machine learning and data mining, the model can analyze the accumulated data and find high-risk indicators.

Monitoring of "magic carpet" patients

"Magic carpet" is a project jointly developed by General Electric Company and Intel Company. Its prototype uses sensors built into the carpet at home to sense the speed and pressure of getting up and walking for the elderly who lack care. Once these data are abnormal, it will alert the relatives of the elderly. Although the built-in sensor devices are still expensive for most people, Smolan said that with the increasing popularity of these gadgets to quantify their own data, users can clearly understand and change their behaviors and improve their health.

Application-level home energy monitoring

In the public service advertisements of saving electricity, we can often see how much electricity we have wasted. Perhaps many people still don't know that DVR alone consumes 1 1% of American household electricity consumption. Therefore, Shwetak Patel, a professor at the University of Washington and a researcher at MacArthur, has developed a device called ElectriSense, which can be plugged into a charging socket at home like a plug, and can remind users how to save electricity through the electromagnetic frequency interference generated by household appliances when using Shitter. Belkin International has purchased this technology and will develop commercial products in the near future.

Using GPS data to understand traffic conditions

Just like a good song, it is always difficult to get a taxi when it rains. In a study jointly conducted by Singapore and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, researcher Oliver Senn suggested that taxi drivers can pull over early in bad weather to attract more passengers. After further research, he also found that taxi drivers in Singapore need to pay an accident deposit of $65,438+0,000 yuan in advance. At first, once an accident happened, the driver could get compensation the next day, but now the compensation time has been extended to several months, which led the driver to choose to wander in bad weather such as rain. This study questions this policy, which is also an example of how big data can help urban planners understand how Ecuador can better improve urban transportation.

Early weather warning

Now we can receive weather warnings from televisions and even smartphones, but Earth Networks, the developer of the WeatherBug application, said that the global population has reached 7 billion, and there are still 6 billion people who have not received warnings before bad weather conditions (especially in underdeveloped countries and regions such as Africa, South America and Asia). The company uses tens of thousands of sensors all over the world to monitor the changes of temperature, wind and lightning, providing users with leading analysis and early warning of bad weather.

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