Tag: Big Data

Decoding Big Data and why it is important.

Big Data is evolving, its the force behind many ongoing waves of digital transformation, including AI, data science and the IoT. This is largely due to the rise of technology and its capacity of capturing information from the real world, and converting it to digital data. [3] We generate data whenever we go online, leaving… Read more Decoding Big Data and why it is important.

Should data analytics stay out of the creative arts?

Disclaimer: my blog post this week will have a more personal tone than I would normally use for an assignment. This post uses music as a proxy for other creative fields – I think the general logic here applies to visual arts, fashion, and even food and beverage, among others. Data analytics, artificial intelligence, machine… Read more Should data analytics stay out of the creative arts?

Big Data and Business

The presentation form Srijan Kumar (Stanford)  gave insights on the components of Big Data and data mining. Describing Big Data as the combination of: Machine Learning Statistics Artificial Intelligence Databases is a great way to look at it. I would like to add the notion that we can think of Artificial Intelligence as the combination… Read more Big Data and Business

Big data and politics.

Big data can be explained by the three concepts of volume, velocity and variety. Volume talks about the actual amount of data and how it matters. This requires processing of high volumes of unstructured and low density data. This can include data that has no value or of no use to the user. Velocity refers… Read more Big data and politics.

Everything Hinges on Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity will make or break our future. As data becomes ubiquitous and omnipresent, there is a shadow looming over the access, storage, archiving and deletion of data. Data as an entity in and of itself will continue to increase exponentially as more devices and people become connected through technology. Take any of the trends we’ve… Read more Everything Hinges on Cybersecurity

Microeconomics Or Big Data: Who Is Driving Pricing?

A weird thing which often happens when we search online for a hotel, a flight, rather than a rental car, is the significant prices oscillation. If we search for a hotel, late in the night, at home, using a MacBook Pro it has one price, while if we search the same hotel, but at noon,… Read more Microeconomics Or Big Data: Who Is Driving Pricing?

Big Data & The Music Industry

1000 Songs in your pocket. This sentence should ring a bell for every music- or technology enthusiast. With these words, Steve Jobs introduced the world to the first iPod in 2001. [1] Some say though, that it wasn’t the iPod but iTunes that has changed the way we consume music. Suddenly it was possible to… Read more Big Data & The Music Industry

AI and Cybersecurity: Using Big Data to be safer

In combat, there are two main facets: defense and offense. That is no different in the cyber world. For-profits, and non-profits host information and other valuable assets with their ecosystems. They build out an environment that attempts to protect the assets. Unfortunately, we live in a world where individuals, groups, and sometimes nation-states try to… Read more AI and Cybersecurity: Using Big Data to be safer

Blockchain + AI

I totally agree with this statement: AI is new productive forces and Blockchain is new productive relations. “AI, Blockchain and the Internet of Things” is the new “Social, Mobile and Cloud”. AI + Blockchain is a very exciting and challenging hot topic. Interestingly, AI and Blockchain have many opposite aspects [1]. For instance, AI is centralized… Read more Blockchain + AI

Big Data in Healthcare

In class, we were introduced to how big data is used in the professional context, particularly within LinkedIn connecting people to opportunities. But there’s also a huge application of big data for healthcare. Dr. Eric Topol, executive vice president at Scripps Research Institute, emphasized that we can now collect environmental data that is greatly informative… Read more Big Data in Healthcare