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Connected sources and available data
Big Data & Privacy Connected sources and available data
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Information requires space
Data – measurements, records, facts – all require space Storage concern memory Where do we get data from? Where might we get info about health stats? Where might we get info about transportation? Social media usage?
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How much can you remember?
Bit – one binary digit Byte – 8 bits [storage for a single letter of a word] KiloByte – 1024 bytes (binary not decimal) Megabyte – 1024 KB. One minute of sound recording. A novel. GigaByte – A symphony in high fidelity. One movie. Terabyte – All the books in a large library. ~ 1,610 CDs
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How much can you remember?
Petabyte – 223,100 DVDs (878 feet tall) or mile high CD stack Exabyte – A list of all words ever spoken by humankind Zettabyte – Recorded video for all TV and movies Yottabyte – Would fill DE and RI with a million datacenters
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Moore’s Law ~ Computer Processors will double in complexity approximately every 2 years. Gordon Moore – 1965 Nintendo SNES Game Cube Wii
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Challenges Given a tool that can provide access to large data sets, what might be some issues that arise? What would it be like to try and locate a friend, by sight, in NYC? What other challenges might we encounter? Visualization, delay, multiple ‘stories’
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‘Internet of Things’ RFID Radio Frequency ID
RFID can communicate on a network Internet We know every device on the internet requires its own IP address. Currently we have an IPv4 (internet protocol version 4) Only allows a total of ~4 billion addresses 32 bit address New IPv6 will allow 300 undecillion unique addresses That’s a 3 followed by 38 zeroes
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Let’s find sources of data
With a partner (or 3), choose one of the sources on the sheet You may find one of your own Write your responses
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