Creating Databases for Web Applications

Big Data. Net Neutrality. Decide on basic projects assignments.

Homework: Start work on basic assignments. Read articles and find at least one other.

Big Data

• buzz term, mixed meanings– also Smart technology, Smarter Cities, etc…

• Volume, velocity, variability– Format of data can be key-value pairs,

parallel structures, XML, or tables

• Also, sometimes used in reference to any use of data, aka analytics, represented by Nate Silver combining polls + regression analysis to predict voting in elections

What is the data?

• Data can be collected by an organization– This is the case with the main subject matter of this

course: organization creates and manages data in standard (relational) database.

• OR gathered from variety of sources, some sources may not be [that] well-defined or complete– "Everything is trying to tell you something"– But what? Correlation is not causation but it

may not matter.

Articles in popular press

• NPR story: http://www.npr.org/2013/03/07/173176488/the-big-data-revolution-how-number-crunchers-can-predict-our-lives?ft=3&f=111787346&sc=nl&cc=es-20130310

• New York Times article: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/02/magazine/who-do-online-advertisers-think-you-are.html?pagewanted=all– "I am the product not the customer…"

More• All Google data, but gathered uncontrolled

process:– http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/24/upshot/tr

ending-holiday-gift-searches.html

• About job hunting: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/making-sense/ask-headhunter-big-data-hr-means-big-problems-job-seekers/

More• Book reviews:

– Big Data http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324178904578342234223307970.html#printMode

– To Save Everything, Click Herehttp://tomslee.net/2013/03/evgeny-morozovs-to-save-everything-click-here.html

• Government proposals: https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2015/01/12/fact-sheet-safeguarding-american-consumers-families

Net Neutrality

• What does this mean?

• What is status as of today?

Classwork / Homework

• Finalize teams– One team member makes posting confirming

team members

• Read articles cited or find your own, for example, recent article on Net Neutrality. Report on moodle (Introductions, etc. forum)– Take an informed position.