They seem to be everywhere nowadays: sleep trackers and step trackers, mood monitors and heart rhythm recorders. Thanks to the advent of wearable tech and the ever-expanding Internet of Things (IoT), you can now practically encapsulate your entire life story in the numbers taken from your mobile devices. There's even a term for this nearly incessant self-monitoring: it's called … [Read more...] about The Data of Self-Tracking: What’s the Future of the Quantified Self?
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Four Ways Big Data Will Make You Happy
It is the end of 2016, lets end the year on a positive note! We are in the middle of a data revolution, where data sources will be connected with each other and as such provide valuable insights. These insights can be used by organisations to reduce costs or increase their revenue, but it can also help in making consumers happier, something that in these times of uncertainty … [Read more...] about Four Ways Big Data Will Make You Happy
How Analytics Can Take Wearables to the Next Level
Wearable technology, or devices with small motion sensors that can be worn by a consumer to provide data tracking insights, is an industry that has begun to boom. According to CCS Insights Wearables Forecast, Worldwide, 2015 2019, the estimated shipment of wearable devices will reach an approximate 84 million units. By 2019, this number will reach 245 million per … [Read more...] about How Analytics Can Take Wearables to the Next Level
Is Wearable Tech Creating a Data Time Bomb?
The company that made your smartphone is no longer a hardware manufacturer. It has become adept at harvesting and managing data from it users, too. Every device has a series of sensors, as well as a user login and an account where data is stored. For manufacturers of wearable technology, theres value in knowing how we spend our time: where we go, what we do, and … [Read more...] about Is Wearable Tech Creating a Data Time Bomb?
RE.WORK Connect Summit, San Francisco 2015
** Use the discount code DATAFLOQ'for 20% off! ** It's estimated the number of things connected to the Internet will reach 50 billion by 2020. At the RE.WORK Connect Summit in San Francisco, November 2015, we will explore the opportunities of emerging trends in IoT as well as how we can use the huge amounts of data generated by an increasingly connected digital … [Read more...] about RE.WORK Connect Summit, San Francisco 2015
