Isabel Drost skrev:
On Wednesday 02 April 2008, Karl Wettin wrote:
I'm thinking of more or other data sources to put under "huge amouts of
data" that anybody might have access to but don't think about it.
Like the WLAN geopositioning used by Apple products: there is this
company that drives around with cars and record WLAN signal strength
with lat/long. Think of all the cool things you can do with that data
and people reporting in where they are and how you figure out that a hub
has a new geoposition from only that and who knows what sort of big
brother related thingy.
I am sure that is a huge amount of data, I am not sure which tasks machine
learning could solve in this context. Maybe for finding people who have
visited the same places as I have?
It doesn't. But these people were able to take one data set and make it
in to something else that was useful for things nobody probably
considered when the original data sources was created. Eureka! and that.
I'm not saying this is whay you should be saying. Just that I'm trying
to think of data sources people don't think of, but they are not so easy
to come up with. This was an example of such a source.
By the way, there are even phones that have WLan as well as GPS (just think of
the OpenMoko free software based smart phone). I think there were even
navigation devices (?) that contain both, GPS and WLan chips.
At least there might be room left to squeeze in POIs?
I a kind of lost here - POI?
Points of interests, pins on electronic maps.
karl
