Big Data BBQ

Start-​cap is a bot­tle­cap with embed­ded RFID capa­bil­ity. It’s still exper­i­men­tal, but some ideas its cre­ators have explored are “flash-​mob” like actions. The cap can enable a glit­ter can­non in a bar or turn on a spot­light in a bar. It will be inter­est­ing to see what hap­pens when the indi­vid­ual caps inter­act with each other. Inter­est­ing inno­va­tion if paired witht …

Con­sider the stan­dard soda machine. Typ­i­cally it will have 5 types of soda. (eg cola, diet cola, caf­feine free cola, diet caf­feine free cola, fla­vored soda (cherry eg). In most cases, it’s pretty sim­ple: each week it will be loaded with soda, emp­tied of coins, and put back into oper­a­tion. A savvy vend­ing machine oper­a­tor would check …

Why is Big Data impor­tant? What is it? A good way to think about Big Data is through an exam­ple of a “smart device”, the ther­mo­stat. With the stan­dard ana­log ther­mo­stat, you turn the dial to increase or decrease tem­per­a­ture and there is a sen­sor which turns on or off the heat­ing and cool­ing sys­tem. There’s min­i­mal data …