Comment 2: Big data is more prevalent in daily life than you think

Name: 李昀真
Student ID: D0740725

This article has provided several ways of how Big Data impacts our lives, it lets us understand how Big Data changes our lives.

Providing Better Entertainment than Ever Before

Many people entertain themselves online, we listening to music, watch videos or playing game, so we would leave our footprints. The business would collect the information and customize for the users based on their footprints. Take Youtube for example, we would see videos related to our footprints appear on our page.
Improved Safety on Many Levels
Big data has been used to improve public safety, such as law enforcement, reducing traffic accidents, identifying potential natural disasters and so on. This helps companies formulate appropriate contingency plans to ensure the safety of stakeholders.  The globe use big data to keep people safe. Data scientists collect data so that they can analyze and predict when online and offline crimes may occur.

Making Shopping Much More Convenient

Big data help those online retailers send recommendations emails to you customers. There are too many products on e-commerce platform, sometimes customers would get upset when they have to spend too much time on searching the product they need. So that the retailers send product recommendations emails would save a lot of time, however it would be annoying if customers receive too many emails. 

Improving Health in Countless Ways

Big Data also improves medical care,through the digitization of medical records, doctors can help patients without visiting them, which is very convenient for people who lives in country sides.

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