The Role Of Technology And Contemporary Urbanism

Today, it seems as if everyone is connected through his or her own cell phone. With this they create data and information, intentionally or not using them. This information can be collected from applications, text messaging, and simple just walking around with a cell phone connected. This data may be analyzed computationally to reveal patterns, trends, and other association relating to human behavior. The creation and use of this data is what today’s society puts under the large umbrella of big data. This paper discusses the ethics of collection practices and use of big data.

Big Data is the act of compiling large sets of data based on a single individual or groups. Everyone encounters data in their daily life--you are experiencing it when you log onto a social media account, when you stream entertainment online, or even when you are online shopping. When you do any of these things you are leaving behind a digital trace that can be accessed by just about anyone. In “Six Provocations for Big Data,” danah boyd and Kate Crawford raise questions regarding the nature of Big Data. What is considered public information? What is the ethical way to go about retrieving data from online sources? Is Big Data more harmful or helpful? How often do you encounter Big Data, or data in general? What is the relationship between data

Meanwhile, data sharing is a large part of Boston’s efforts to improve the quality of life for their residents. And the City of Boston eagers to improve BAR from a data collection effort to a citywide performance management system accessible in real-time from any device. Big data provides an unprecedented opportunity to deliver improved services. It is a good chance to analyze large data sets, find the value of data and tell the story of the City of Boston in new way.

Like Luna et al., Kuo, Sahama, Kushniruk, Borycki, & Grunwell (2014) note the inconsistency of the definition of big data in research. They, however, say this inconsistency is because big data is an evolving concept. They describe big data as data that is so large, so complex, and growing so fast that traditional data management methods cannot hold or organize it. Kuo et al.’s and Luna et al.’s definitions varied among syntax, but both stressed the complex nature of big data. This variation seemed to be a trend among several of the researchers. While each researcher’s definitions somewhat differed, each seemed to agree that big data is data that is so complicated that traditional methods cannot handle it. The researchers continued to agree that the complex health data available today falls under the definition of big data.

In this essay, our primary discussion in this part will be around some specific examples on how urban data is being captured, from examples of 311 calls to interactive street displays like LinkNYC, how the newly collected data is shaping the urban planning process and aiming to solve wicked problems, and more detailed case analysis on LinkNYC, including the a proposed optimized outcome of deploying this new data collecting technology.

Big Data refers to the large amounts of data that businesses deal with on a day-to-day basis. Big Data can be defined in many ways, but this is one of the most general definitions. One of the primary uses businesses have for Big Data is to provide assistance for decision making. In order for Big Data to be effective, organizations must utilize the data to their advantage. The quality of information is what matters, not the quantity. Organizations may have virtually unlimited amounts of data to work with, but they must locate the helpful portions of data in order for it to be effective and serve its purpose. In addition, some data may not be helpful at the present moment in time, but will be needed for analysis in the future (“What Is Big Data?”,

A very simplified way of looking at big data refers to, “the sheer mass of data produced daily by and within global computer networks at a pace that far exceeds the capacity of current databases and software programs to organize and process” (Dewey, "Big Data"). The world of big data has evolved primarily from the business intelligence and analytics field of information technology. Big data and big data analytics involve big data sets. The information that is stored requires unique ways of holding and organizing the data in order to process it correctly. Common methods of data storage are just not possible. The internet has added to the amount of data that can be captured. With the ability of advertisers to utilize technologies to capture user information through web interfaces, the sheer magnitude of information that can be kept is staggering. All of this information can be put to use by any number of businesses and governments (Chen, Chiang, and Storey, "Business Intelligence and Analytics: From Big Data to Big Impact."). The ability to direct or channel all of that information opens unbelievable doors to virtually any organization. All kinds of organizations would benefit including businesses, governments, schools and hospitals (Dewey, "Big Data"). “Big data may be as important to business –

In 2012, the concept of ‘Big Data’ became widely debated issue as we now live in the information and Internet based era where everyday up to 2.5 Exabyte (=1 billion GB) of data were created, and the number is doubling every 40 months (Brynjolfsson & McAfee, 2012). According to a recent research from IBM (2012), 90 percent of the data in the world has been created in the last two years alone, and Internet activity in each second today will generate more data than all the data combined in the

Big data is often referred to and defined in many different ways.In layman terms, we can interpret it as massive or huge amounts of information which cannot be handled efficiently by the current technologies and softwares. But recent technological advancements like data analytics, and social or media networks allow process, transfer, allocate, measure and represent enormous amounts of data which can also be referred to as Big Data.

You may have heard the term “Big Data” often these days and the importance of analytics attached to it. The availability of good data set and analytics of it provide organizations ability to understand consumer behavior and future prospects. This has now become an essential part of every business operation. Data itself is not a new thing to humans, written records have been in existence since 4th millennium BC. What has changed recently is that with digital inventions and significant growth in internet access, most people are on the electronic grid for longer periods and spending lot of time on emails, messaging, entertainment and social media applications. This huge growth in data generation has given birth to the concept of

The term Big Data is to a large extent vague and amorphous. Information technology professionals look at Big Data as large data sets that require supercomputers to collate, process and analyse to draw meaningful conclusions. A phenomenon defined by the rapid acceleration in the expanding volume of high velocity, complex, and diverse types of data. The new character added in this definition is

Now-a-days the Data usage has increased a lot. Data that the human race has accumulated in the past one decade, far exceeds the data that are available to mankind during the preceding century. They also expect that different stakeholders such as consumers, companies and businesses are likely to exploit the potential of Big Data. Several estimates about the accumulation of data have challenged our earlier imagination. Data scientists are increasingly using data quantities in Peta and Zeta bytes. There is no doubt now that

Smart Cities are employing information and communication technologies in the quest for sustainable economic development and the fostering of new forms of collective life.

The promise of data-driven decision-making is now being recognized broadly, and there is growing enthusiasm for the notion of ``Big Data.’’ While the promise of Big Data is real -- for example, it is estimated that Google alone contributed 54 billion dollars to the US economy in 2009 -- there is currently a wide gap between its potential and its realization.

Emergent technologies have advanced beyond our ability to conceptualize their implications. New ways of living have already emerged based on constant aggregation and processing of data. In the name of efficiency, advanced technology like lidar, pattern recognition, synthetic sensing, and internet of things have been introduced in models of smarter cities and smarter homes, promising constant optimization of a city’s functioning and of citizens’ day to day lives. Being born and raised in a diverse and multi ethnic country like India, I’ve been conditioned to notice the ways in which the cultural and regional specificity in people’s lifestyles shape the identity of a city. While the mediation of technology is indisputably of central importance when discussing the future of the urban environment, the projections for the future usually refer mostly to economically advanced metropolises or to urban areas with no local and traditional characteristics attributed to them. Different geographical particularities, local economies and