Top of the Data: The Big Data Revolution, History, Reality, and the Future

If you, like me, have no concept of the origin of data and want to know the small history of data, the current and future directions, I recommend you to watch it.

The book is divided into two parts, the upper part is small data divided into three eras (early numbers, civil war, gold-plated) with five chapters to analyze, the main line follows the time series of the United States has a beginning and an end; the lower part is big data divided into four eras (quantization, sampling, Open, big data) is explained in three chapters, and because the four eras are still tight, the author only marks the key events, and does not divide the end point. (Copying Guide)

From the very beginning, I used the history of the U.S. Constitution to bring into the theme, because at that time, the constitution was to be established to solve the problem of political system and power allocation. It sounds like it has nothing to do with the data, but the founders of the United States at that time were between the two. To the association: to count the heads. They believe that although the opinions of the majority represent the interests of the majority, the majority is simply a mediocre majority. Human elites will always be in the minority. Democracy cannot guarantee the development of human society in the right direction. Direction: "The Constituent Assembly has gradually reached a consensus: Democracy is only the foundation, and the republic is the goal." (Republic: Emphasizes how to put an end to [tyranny of the majority] and ensure the harmonious coexistence of the "majority and minority divided in a democratic society" ).

And in order to prevent each state from falsifying more or concealing less population data because of its power, they think of a way to check and balance:

"Because the power of the state - seats are allocated according to the population, the taxes that the continents need to pay to the central government are also divided according to the population: states that want to get more seats by inflating the population base also have to pay more taxes accordingly. Obligations: At the same time, states that seek to avoid taxes through population growth will lose their rightful place in the state’s distribution of power. This mutually binding relationship promotes the fairness and accuracy of the census.”

Later in the book, there are a lot of events about how the United States obtained data, used data, or explained how to use data: for example, in 1850, Howlerli made the United States truly move towards a "people" census, from the previous data to households. The "household" account evolved into a "person" population based on an individual. He also invented the census puncher to speed up the process of reading data and set the concept of binary. Finally, he created the predecessor of IBM; for example, different departments /The state government/federal government began to quantify the cost-benefit and then discuss the whole "green paper"; in the end, the cost-benefit calculation will inevitably help to set a price for life, because resources are limited, but unfortunately not everyone accepts it. Rational, As soon as the document came out, it would turn into news like "Life is not worth saving $11", and the court finally closed the case. At the beginning of the statistics, I tried to cover all the population, until one faction was more supportive of the sample survey and finally won. Immediately, they began to run out. There were sample market surveys that asked first and then filmed "Gone with the Wind", and public opinion surveys were all turned to sampling; Deming, the father of quality control, made a siege in Japan, which made the famous low-quality Japanese products at that time. Yica Japan is a guarantee of quality.

I have been watching, the timeline slowly goes to modern times to the government (US) information disclosure, data transparency, cloud, Internet of Things, unmanned driving, AI, and finally to the whole "smart city" where you can use a lot of big data to order samples. Check out the book, don't copy it in detail.

The ideas in this book can help you understand the importance of data to the world, the country, society, and even individuals. Do you actually mean one vote? From this new digital age, when "you" is a commodity, it seems like it's absolutely no good for me to be insensitive to numbers. In addition, because the author is Chinese, he will occasionally talk about China in a few sentences at the end of the chapter. During the writing, I feel that I hate iron is not steel, and some chapters even reveal my heart. It's a pity, my brother, as a Hong Konger, of course I think about Hong Kong, and then I have to laugh. How many reports have been published saying that the population estimate has been wrong for many years, and that there are many places in Hong Kong that can be used first, whether reclamation or wetland use. The government It doesn't matter, because the Hong Kong government doesn't, so it doesn't need to use data to think about it, it's enough to be popular. Having said that, everyone knows that the Hong Kong government is not doing things for the people of Hong Kong, but even if in the end, Hong Kong really has what we call "democracy" (do you think it would scare the republic?) In the sentence:

"The quality of democracy depends on the level of rational thinking of the masses".

Author: #Tu Zipei
English title (there should be no English version): "Big Data: History, Reality and Future"
Publishing: Hong Kong Zhonghe Publishing Co., Ltd.
ISBN: 978-988-8284-11-5

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