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Imagine a world where you wake up in the morning and you are available to interact with your environment by speaking to an Artificial Intelligent Robo, but instead of the robot being physical, it is integrated into your wireless network.

You start the morning off and you hear a voice that tells you “Good Morning, you have had eight hours of sleep, but it was a restless night and of those eight hours you tossed and turned and only five were quality sleep.”

You walk towards the kitchen to have your breakfast and your home PA announces, “Your body is 5% dehydrated, please add an extra two glasses of water to your morning intake. Oh, and by the way, your stress levels are elevated by 20% due to your lack of sleep. Please schedule a 20-minute powernap or meditation session before your big game today.”

Does this sound more like a sci-fi movie set in 2080? Well, it’s actually very possible in 2018 already. For this to happen, your information just needs to be freely available to your home system or the software

Don’t look too far because the wearable on your wrist allows you to get valuable insight and metrics which help you change your behaviour and when you do change your behaviour, it rewards you. Just think about that daily 10 000-step challenges. Now if you had to think bigger as in global, companies of the wearable devices are able to analyse the mass data and see which countries are more obese, which countries are less active and other indicators which could be precursors to diabetes, heart attacks or strokes. that runs it.

Currently there are three systems available: Apple Siri, Google Assist and Amazon Alexa. You are already wearing certain devices, but there is no

If you have ever been to an event in South Africa, getting there and leaving are some of the biggest problems fans complain about. If it is a sold-out concert, then expect a three-hour minimum wait getting in or out. Smart people in the States have created an eco-system of collecting data on everything about your event. They might not necessarily be linked all together, but each database is linked in the end to provide real time event analysis. Data scientists can then analyse the information to event planners and plan better. Things like, when congestion occurs, how long the queues are at the bathroom to waiting two hours for a beer at a Wanderers cricket event. It all boils down to customer experience and whether they buy a ticket again. integration of your data into their system. Once you are available to do that, then you will be able to ask any of these devices the questions you want to know.

The power of these devices is that it is linked up to the internet and this provides a power platform to find data and give it to you. A simple question might be, “what was my heart rate this week during office hours and what is a safe average value”? The system will have your weekly average, analyses it by extracting the information for office hours only and then compares it by accessing the internet to see what the safe values are. Where predicative analytics comes in is that it will start to be able to advise, in the future, of a change of behaviour.

This all sounds too futuristic but after attending and speaking at the Sports Analyst Conference in Sandton this week, the future looks very exciting and not far-fetched at all.

I doubt the majority of people care too much about the “what ifs”, but rather how mass data can be used to serve you and make your life better or more enjoyable.

There is a set minimum number of people needed to carry out a research experiment and one of the biggest problems facing researchers are participation. Researchers, if they set up their experiments properly, and using new-age tech, will allow them through a non-evasive approach to track, monitor and collect data. This means their sample groups exponentially grow and even on tighter budgets. This would allow for research experiments to become more credible and ultimately provide more validated conclusions.

Research from mass data is already helping you to live longer by showing that if you don’t rev up you heart rate through moderate to high intensity activities then you are at high risk of chronic illnesses. Illness that can be prevented through exercise. Previous data has paved the way for this research to help future generations to be healthier and live longer. Soon all data from hospitals will be analysed, which can pave the way to better practices and recovery times. We should not fear big data and what is here and what is coming. The future is bright and thankfully big data and the analytics of data is creating a better playing ground for you to interact with the environment and world around you.