Saturday, March 30, 2013

Big Data and Film

After cloud computing changes people’s mind in business, the Big Data comes out and changes business operation and analysis method to increase the efficiency and mobility. Lots of different industries get benefits from Big Data, and the entertainment business also takes Big Data into operation, such as analysts can use the amount of nominations, wins in different awards shows, and information from betting websites data to do some researches with using Big Data to predict the major award winners in some specific award ceremony; music executives through analyzing data to acquire the customers’ listening habits and musical inclinations, and they also can use data analysis to decide the position and the kinds of musicians to give their shows; and movie studios and distributors or other movie organizations can use Big Data to analyze data and then to make decisions about the promotion methods, releasing film dates and releasing locations to make sure that the films could make profits.


Now we will see ten movies that could help us to get familiar with Big Data through an interesting way.
V for Vendetta (2005 - James McTeigue) Because of V-Trinity, which stands for Velocity, Volume and Variety, V means more than Vendetta in Big Data, in addition, Velocity means real time processing, Volume means getting useful and enough information through a large amount of data, and Variety means to use and to relate different kinds of data to help make the final decisions.

The Fast and the Furious (2001- Rob Cohen) Keep your eyes on your data and make them to “speak out” useful information. You could use Big Data to analyze your business and predict which decision could make a difference and which decision could make you bankrupt, and you could imagine that you exploit data to get knowledge whether to be fail or to be successful in a high speed, with the data driven culture, you could have the idea of dying soon or triumphing soon. Fail fast or you are going to get furious!

The Gold Rush (1925 - Charlie Chaplin) The data is like the new mine, and a large number of companies want to exploit the potential of the data to get more and more information to help them make money in business, but it is very difficult to build up the data driven culture in the organizations which is like Chaplin’s hard trip in Alaska. If the organizations want to have an easier and happier way to take the revolution, they should know how to avoid the fatal mistakes in Big Data revolution.

Up (2009 – Pete Docter, Bob Peterson) Up is a very touching and good movie and you could get lots of fun in the clouds scene, additionally, the volume of Big Data is like the elastic cloud infrastructure. The Big Data with the map-reduce paradigm could make the information technology problems solve on different cloud infrastructures.

The Elephant Man (1980 – David Lynch) “Hadoop” (named after the toy of Doug Cutting’s son, the creator) is a yellow elephant in the Big Data room. In the beginning, Hadoop is just a Google project and now it is a corner stone in the big data foundations.

Titanic (1997 – James Cameron) Titanic is a movie which shows a decision without enough analyzing the uncertainty to come out a sad result. Big Data could make you get more useful information which you could not see in your data before. With Big Data, you could see the “Iceberg” under the “water” and you will have a new view about your data and your decisions.

Minority Report (2002 – Steven Spielberg) Pre-crime department Anderson stops all the criminals before killing victims by predicting the future. Predictive analytics to predict what will happen in the future through analyzing data is the “killer application” of Big Data.

No Country for Old Men (2007 – E. & J. Coen) Big Data is a brand new skill and the old database “men” should make themselves to adjust to the new technology. In addition, Big Data means a lot of kinds of data and a large number of sources to collect data to make the decision makers find out the potential from “Big” data.

Big Fish (2003 – Tim Burton) Big fish is a movie which has a relationship with Auburn University. Big Data is so far like Ed Bloom’s shocking story which is told from his deathbed, sometimes, you could not make a clear decision about which is reality and which is a fairy tale with the reason that the fair tale may become the reality in the future.

Black Swan ( 2010 - Darren Aronofsky) A Black Swan is not only a role but also a theory to tell us that the rare events are hard to predict and the rare events may have a significant influence on the final results. Big Data could help you to see the rare events from the data, additionally, with analyzing data, you could predict the “Black Swan” and have a clear idea about how to do in the future.

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2. http://bigdata-doctor.com/big-data-explained-in-10-movies/

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