Introduction
One of the questions people ask me commonly is:
Is Big Data / Data Science really a buzz or a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity?
Different people have different answers and viewpoints to the question above.
I don’t want to get into this debate here. I am rather taking a safer approach here.
I would tell you a few applications which are already impacting a layman’s life.
You can read them for yourself and decide whether this is a buzz or an opportunity.
we discussed one by one
1.Image Recognition
(Using data science, companies have become intelligent enough to push & sell products as per customers purchasing power & interest. Here’s how they are ruling our hearts and minds)
You upload your image with friends on Facebook and you start getting suggestions to tag your friends. This automatic tag suggestion feature uses a face recognition algorithm. Similarly,
while using WhatsApp web, you scan a barcode in your web browser using your mobile phone. In addition,
Google provides you the option to search for images by uploading them. It uses image recognition and provides related search results.
To know more about image recognition.
check out this amazing (1:31) mins video:
www.dprg.co.in
