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Big Data-The Peace-maker
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Yes. Big Data can help prevent conflicts.
Big Data can sniff rumblings of violent conflicts before it begins. Kenyan officials used this system to trail hate speeches or hate posts on Facebook, Blogs and Twitter ahead of 2013 presidential elections.
Similar efforts to track Syrian social media have been able to identify ceasefire violations within 15 minutes of when they occur, according to the paper on New Technology and the Prevention of Violence and Conflict prepared by the United States Agency for International Development, the United Nations Development Programme and the International Peace Institute and presented at the United States Institute of Peace Friday.
These apprehensions can be further controlled by adding other data from surveillance cameras, satellites and GPS data.
How Big Data Can Make You Merrier
Do you regularly browse health tips, sleep patterns or other personal habits? If yes, then you must admire the fact that your choices and habits are closely monitored (even better than how your spouse does) and analysed when you refer to Big Data identities whenever needed.
We are amidst an era when maturation of technology means data is being collected about your actions in ways that has never existed before.
Users actively or passively enter data via sensors, search engines or applications which proactively track our behaviour. Here goes the good news: Getting familiar with quantified self-applications will benefit personal and community self-awareness. You'll understand how to better shape your personality in this new virtual economy and learn the quantitative metrics that derive their fullest context when seen through a qualitative lens.
Big Data in News
MATTER OF FACT!
The Quantified Self is an effort to unite technology into data acquisition on aspects of a person's daily life in terms of inputs (e.g. food consumed, quality of surrounding air), states (e.g. mood, blood oxygen levels), and performance (mental and physical). Such self-monitoring and self-sensing, which combines wearable sensors (EEG, ECG, video, etc.) and wearable computing, is also known as lifelogging or sousveillance.
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