Big Data is Everywhere: 5 Ways It's Used in Your Everyday Life

Title:  Big Data is Everywhere: 5 Ways It's Used in Your Everyday Life

Blog #3
Name : Devina
Student ID : D0731576
Source: https://blog.bismart.com/en/big-data-is-everywhere
Written by: Bismart blog


Let's be honest here, we sometimes can't live without a smartphone in our hand. This is also because of the role of Big Data in our daily life which makes it easier to do some certain activities. You will realize how much Big Data really influence you after you read this 5 ways it's used in today's era.

1. Mobile Maps and GPS
GPS really helps us become more confident while traveling in our city, country, or even overseas. Even though we don't really familiar with the place, or getting lost on a trip, we still can find our way out and arrive at our expected destination with the help of GPS in our smartphone. With the GPS technology, we are able to enter in our start and endpoints from virtually anywhere.

In 2017, if you log in to Google Maps on your smartphone, you will notice that the directions provided are always getting better and detailed. Even you can track some public transportation nearby, and help you find the best option to arrived at your destination.

2. Online Shopping
Have you ever experienced that the item you have been wanting to buy suddenly pops up on your recommendation page? well, it is because the big data has recorded your search activities about that item. Even as a seller, you will easily target the right customers to buy your product. Almost all of the e-commerce company requires you to enter your location so they can help you track the expected shipping cost as well as the nearest seller.

3. Urban Planning
Big Data allows urban planners to develop a new understanding of how cities function.

4. Energy Consumption
Smart meters collect data from sensors all over the urban space.

5. Wearables
Apple watch is some of an example of wearables technology that is handy to bring around.



Comments

  1. Kathleen 蔣慧敏May 12, 2020 at 7:34 AM

    Kathleen 蔣慧敏
    Student ID : D0726920

    As a person who always use smartphone most of time in a day, I have never realized how big data play a role in our daily activities. That’s why I think the article that Devina chooses is very interesting and informative. As Devina has summarized in her blog, big data are found in five field that we most used in our daily life.
    First, mobile maps and GPS. Back then, we used maps made from papers to find a way if we got lost in a trip. Nowadays, we can just easily use mobile maps and GPS using our smartphone. In this segment, big data contribute in improving the mobile maps and also providing accurate real time directions.
    Second, online shopping. Shopping from online shops is a very common method of shopping lately. The fact that we can easily shop online and do not have to waste time going out to buy things is all thanks to the help of big data. Because of big data, we can shop online in a fast way, our goods can be transported in real time, then it will soon be delivered to our home.
    Third, Urban planning. It is written in the article that big data can help plan urban centers. For example, public transport functionality.
    Fourth, energy consumption. By using big data in smart meters, we can manage our energy consumption to be more efficient.
    Fifth, wearables. All wearable technologies use big data in order to provide services for their users.
    From the article chosen by Devina, I learned that big data is very important in our daily activities because big data can help us do our activities more effective and efficient.

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  2. Lusiana 黃詩霞May 20, 2020 at 7:38 PM

    Lusiana
    D0731621

    The article that Devina chose is really interesting. From her blog, I can learn about how big data plays role in our life. I never knew that big data have a lot of influence in our daily life. She summarized the article really well and clear. As from what she wrote there are 5 main example of big data use in our daily life. First, mobile map and GPS to help us find a route or transportation in general. I agree with her statement that mobile map and GPS is really important for us especially when we are travelling in our city or even overseas. As a foreign student myself, I uses google maps almost every day if I want to go somewhere. Google maps has helped me to find the bus schedule and find the location of bus stop while travelling. Next, online shopping which uses big data to predict the consumer’s behavior. This is quite new for me because I never realized that the recommendation or ads that pop up every time I opened my phone or laptop are actually part of the big data works. Third, urban planning which uses big data to develop new understanding of how citizens function. Fourth, Energy consumption with its smart meters to collect data from sensors all over the urban space. And lastly is Wearables devices such as apple watch.
    In conclusion, I think Devina really did a great job at explaining this article and I got so many new information and facts about big data from her blog

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  3. Sally D0740993June 14, 2020 at 10:30 PM

    Sally 何昕朣 D0740993

    Nowadays, the rapid progress of some technologies has created conditions for the large-scale collection and utilization of big data, and the significance of big data has also been reflected. It can reshape the three main characteristics of learning, that is, feedback, personalization, and probability prediction.

    By analyzing the user's interactive data and analyzing their learning methods, and in turn, using the accumulated data to improve the entire application. The convenience of big data digs out user information and dynamics, making it popular in many industries, whether it is the medical industry, education industry, TV industry...etc., every scholar or patient can use technical support to achieve work anytime, anywhere. It will become a social place, a place to discuss and learn from each other. As a result, I sometimes think big data can explore the value that we can’t imagine, and what will happen to its future development?

    In the future, the work of employees will be more environmentally independent. That is to say, through technical support, to work anytime, anywhere, the enterprise will become a social place, where each other discusses and learns from each other.

    Big data will record our vehicles, outbound travel, bank cards, web browsing information, etc., and can suggest a comprehensive credit evaluation system to let the data solve our high quality. For example, our artificial intelligence virtual puppies based on big data and machine learning, and virtual puppies are smarter than physical puppies, not only can talk to people, but also very understanding, you say such a rare species. In general, big data has been integrated into our lives, making our lives better!

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