How Big Data Impacts our Lives Everyday

Student Name: Grace Zhang 張嚴云
Student ID: D0740679

Blog#1: How Big Data Impacts our Lives Everyday
Website: http://www.keywebmetrics.com/2015/04/how-big-data-impacts-lives-everyday-infographic/

The emergence of big data is no doubt bring a lot of benefits to our daily lives. It takes part in personal daily activities to large industry business deals. 

Accompanying with the invention of wearable devices, big data analysis can be used to track our calories, dietary habits, and some personal health care. From a wider perspective, this kind of technology can be also used for elderly care. Therefore, there are various health and elderly care applications which packed with the function like glucose level and blood pressure tracking been issued. These kinds of new technologies are all attributed to the rise of big data analysis.

Big data also brings us a more convenient and economize living level. Take one thing, for example, we do shopping online and browse the items we want. The websites tend to sort out the products we may be interested in. As a result, we can directly choose what we want in a shorter time. As for the seller, they can target their potential consumers in a more efficient way through the data. In general, it is easy to see the positive impacts of using the big data while doing the business.

The same goes to social media, transport, recreation & leisure, etc. No matter it is about a large amount of use of up-to-date information or the real-time data of the traffic condition nowadays, with the use of big data, our lives definitely become easier and savvy today.

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