The Most Interesting and Innovative Uses for Big Data
As big data grows and we begin to understand how to effectively represent and repurpose complex information through advanced analytics, companies both big and small will find new and exciting uses for this bottomless ocean of data. Sure, growth within different businesses is a plus, but what can big data do to improve other aspects of daily life?
Below are just a few of the active and in-development uses for big data that will provide benefits to common mobile users as well as, say, doctors trying to enhance treatment techniques. The data is big, but the solutions it provides might be even bigger.
- SumAll: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and all of the other social media accounts you use on a daily basis collect and store a massive amount of data. Instead of just letting it sit there, SumAll allows companies and individuals to visualize data from all these different sources via an interactive chart.
- Cloudera: This big data startup distributes Apache Hadoop but adds its own unique style to the open-source software framework. Management tools, software add-ons, and a host of services meant to streamline the platform are all available.
- Smarking: You know what always seems like a hassle, no matter how organized the event? Parking. Smarking has found a way to make use of big data and the cloud to allow parking managers to take advantage of usage patterns, special events, and a host of other factors to improve different parking situations. Parking history along with real-time data help to paint a clear picture for managers wondering when the best time to lower prices or offer promotions truly is.
- Mount Sinai Medical Center: This massive teaching hospital might be old, but its practices are state of the art. With the help of big data company Ayasdi, Mount Sinai Medical Center is analyzing the E. coli genome sequence in order to better understand specific antibiotics resistances that people have run into.
Many of these big data-fueled ideas sound innovative, but we’ve only scratched the surface of what big data can do. How people look at insurance and finance can change based on decades of collected data, and of course, government at local, state, and federal levels will use this information to make their daily processes much more efficient.
It’s a long road, but we’ve never had more data and more uses for that data than we do right now.
