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Sensor for everything – twine.
Typically sensors are built into a mobile device and there are many applications of the sensor with a good interface. However, using those sensors require special programming or something that we all have “a phone app”. These are now almost all complete and so there is probably an app for whatever you need even if…
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Device: Rain or shine
There are many devices that measure activity and Shine is another one. The strange thing is that it has not been released but it still seems interesting to people. It is waterproof and it is small. The device is something that would be useful to the people with FitBit and other Fuel band’s out there,…
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Sensors Devices those are beautiful even if not very useful
Lapka is an interesting company. In this dangerous world it thinks we need sensors that measure things. These sensors measure radioactivity (Geiger counter), electromagnetic fields, humidity and organic content of food. These devices are not new. Many companies make them but they do it very elegantly. Their devices look good and hopefully are as functional…
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Artificial and portable Kidneys
Kidneys perform an essential function in the body of removing the waste – salts, many metabolites and also many other waste substances. However, in many patients this kidney is damaged and there are only two possibilities for these patients: 1.Kidney transplantation – very difficult to do, very expensive and very difficult to find a donor…
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Walmart : Data mining in retail
Walmart as is well known is a big retailer, not just big but massive. They have been a big retailer since a long time and have been processing large data before the term “Big data existed”. The interesting feature about them is that they are about the biggest retailer with a net turnover of $450…
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Labor statistics the Big Data way
Typically, labor statistics are collected tediously by the staff of Bureau of Labor Statistics by visiting, faxing and calling different stores, offices and online retailers in 90 cities across the nation and getting back nearly 80,000 prices for different items. This costs about $250MM per year and takes at least several weeks to put together.…
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Personal monitoring – Basis watch or band
There are many fitness monitors out there from Nike’s fuel band to Fit Bit. They all promise monitoring of activity in some form or another but none are very comprehensive.One company, promises better watches and sensors – Basis. Their sensors are equipped with not just accelerometer sensors but they also capture skin sweat secretion, heart…
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Data mining – Useless data or useful data?
Companies that you previously did not think were in the data mining business or in the prediction business have used data mining technologies in strange but very useful ways. Your company too has some “useless” data that can be harvested. It really comes down to asking the correct question. Google obviously is centrally in the…
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Data mining as used by companies to their advantage
Doing data mining for other companies, have helped the data mining companies in many ways besides the services that they offer. In some cases, they have made several new businesses. There are two examples that are mentioned in “Big Data – A revolution” by Victor Mayer-Schoneberger and Kenneth Cukier In Amazon early days, Amazon made…
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Big data analysis is an approximation.
When we think about the brain and our ability to see, we realize that when we recognize people and see, we do not see everything as in a photograph but more see patterns. If the face matches the pattern that we recognized before as a person then we recognize him as such and not necessarily…
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