LAW 723 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Big Data, Net Neutrality, Canadian Content
23 Feb 2016
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Loosening of canadian content requirements: premise: innovation, transparency, clarity, competitive neutrality, consumer choice, pricing discipline. Internet: allows computers to communicate: smart phone: mobility to computers. Garbage dots: create, identify, associate, mine, extract, purify, blend, convert, aggregate, archive. Beginning of big data (application of disparate data: us navy charts 1850. Finding patterns, focusing resources on problematic areas: weight, season, holidays (stat and religious), weather, neighbourhood (taxes), traffic patterns, demographics, flu and cold season. Size of data (weather: data is huge!! World is divided into squares, with 150 lvls of altitude, with wind, moisture, clouds, temperature and history. All data is noise until you see a pattern: links diff information from diff sources historically 20 sources for a credit rating, now thousands of sources. Beer coupons if no more trips to pub. No longer linear, more web like, no main source, stem from all directions: algorithms in the world. Break a big thing into a million different things (flock of birds)
