“Big data” gets personal

LifeLogging: Personal Big Data

We have recently observed a convergence of technologies to foster the emergence of lifelogging as a mainstream activity. Computer storage has become significantly cheaper, and advancements in sensing technology allows for the efficient sensing of personal activities, locations and the environment. This is best seen in the growing popularity of the quantified self movement, in which life activit...

The genome gets personal--almost.

IT’S THE“YEAR OFPERFECTVISION,”2020.AMY,AGE21YEARS, visits with her physician and elects to have complete genome sequencing. At a follow-up visit, Amy chooses to learn of her genetic risk factors for heart disease, diabetes, breast cancer, and colon cancer. Amy’s physician provides her with risk scores for those disorders, and with suggestions for lifestyle modifications. Specifically, Amy is a...

The Perception Factor: Climate Change Gets Personal

Big data gets bigger: what about data cleaning as a storage service?

The success of big data solutions principally rely on the timely extraction of valuable insights from data. This will continue to become more challenging due to the growths in data volume without corresponding increase in velocity. We advocate that storage systems of the future should include functionality to detect and harness fundamental data characteristics such as similarity and correlation...

Big data privacy: The datafication of personal information