First Blog First Post

Self-Introduction: Background, This Class, and The Blog

I do have bachelors and master’s in civil engineering from University Colorado of Denver and master’s in data science from Southern Methodist University (Dallas Texas). I am currently working as Intern Data Scientist with City and County of Denver.

I did a major transform, in my academic life, from civil engineering to a data enthusiastic profession due to many reasons. First, because I did have limited knowledge in data and its driven decision and want to have some insight about it. Second, I observe that our world is turning to digitalizing itself and our future seems to depend on virtual business. That in turn opens my interest to striving to have a better understanding in the big data world. As the world transform into the digital world, there increases the need for big data educators and experts.

But what is big data?  Big Data could be explained as huge amounts of data (structured and unstructured) mostly warehoused in the cloud or in special data centers, that are then used by enterprises, companies, organizations, institutions, startups, the government, etc. for various uses (Neo, 2020). Big data utilization, usually called big data analytics, include cleaning data, analyzing data, forming patterns, trends and correlations, to extract some meaning. Big Data is also characterized by its qualities, termed as 4Vs:

·       Volume- a massive amount of data and data storage (cloud storage etc.)

·       Velocity- generating of data with an incredible rate.

·       Variety-heterogeneous data of different formats and types that can easily available via such as social media and the internet.

·       Veracity- data inconsistencies and uncertainty (unstructured data — images, social media, video, etc.)

Big Data is usually related with other field such as Data Science, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Deep Learning, etc. to create or innovate new things for life betterment. That means innovation in the big data future will help to inventing new technologies and implementing them to effectively manage data.

I named my blog title as  “The Future-The Big Data” where the link is at https://thefuture-thebigdata.blogspot.com/ . Its name reflects my interest in the future. Because our future is likely faced with an enormous, desperate, and fast-growing data. I just used a simple blog with a “simple blog” theme from “Bloger.com” that I am planning to tweaking it later to make it look better. Blogger is  a solid solution for personal blogs, but it’s not the best resource for professional use (Tuca, updated February 24, 2021). Blogger has, however, simple appearance options which makes a blogger focus more on the writing part.

Reference

1.       Neo, B., (2020). Big Data: Its Benefits, Challenges, and Future -A brief look at Big Data and         the future.

         https://towardsdatascience.com/big-data-its-benefits-challenges-and-future-6fddd69ab927

2.       Tuca, A., (Last updated: February 24, 2021). 10 Best Free Blogging Sites to Build Your Blog for Free in 2021: Tested, Compared and Reviewed. 

         https://themeisle.com/blog/best-free-blogging-sites/

3.   Frey, C., (n/d). How do you Define Innovation and Make it Practical and Saleable to Senior Management?                                                            https://innovationmanagement.se/2008/01/07/how-do-you-define-innovation-and-make-it-practical-and-saleable-to-senior-management/