2. ?
We make MIT a more data-driven Institute by rethinking the
way we access, share, and use data to learn and make
decisions.
?
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3. The Big Data Living Lab – why?
Improving and understanding our community using data
building platforms for new applications
demonstrate social implications of big data
Exploring privacy and technical challenges of data
Issues surrounding large-scale data integration, analytics, visualization, and performance
Showcasing Solutions by Using our Research
Demonstrating new approaches, prototypes, systems, and tools
In programmer speak, “eating our own dogfood”
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4. So What’s This App About?
Sending info to GetFit
Contributing to research at CSAIL
Using the technologies that come
from MIT’s research
Viewing and Owning Your Data
The same data that fitness apps already
collect from you… without your knowledge
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5. What type of Data?
Just a few things
• Location
• Motion
• Device Info
• Activity & Pedometer
• Proximity sensor
• Battery
No call logs, text messages, microphone, browser
history, etc
Which is what other apps and Wearables
already do
…Except that we let you own
your data.
Apple
Healthkit
Google
Fit
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6. …Except that we let you own your data
If you want to you can…
…YoUR Raw Data
View It
Play With It
Understand It
Compute On It
Share It
Edit It
Delete It
Even Lie About It.
And We CAN’t Do anything about it.
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7. How Does thIs Work?
You
minutes
Getfit website
sensor data
processed data & graphics
your unabridged
raw data
DataHub
graphics, info,
reminders,
etc
Getfit App
Now about that Elephant-Octopus-Datahub
Thing…
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10. DataHubDataHub
A: Clean &
Transform
A: Clean &
Transform
B: Query &
Visualize
B: Query &
Visualize
C: Search &
Integrate
C: Search &
Integrate
D: Export &
Share
D: Export &
Share
User DataUser Data
Raw DataRaw Data
Transformed
Data
Transformed
Data
VisualizationsVisualizations
Samples &
Indices
Samples &
Indices
ProvenanceProvenance
Temporal
Annotations
Temporal
Annotations
Shared/Public DataShared/Public Data
Search
Indices
Search
IndicesShared DataShared Data
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…
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…
Table Search
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Table Search
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11. How Does This Benefit me? And MIT?
Campus Life
• Transportation
• Bus usage, routing
• Ride sharing
• Health+ Medical
• Public health metrics
• Health signals
Resource Management
• Space and energy use
• Campus
quantification
• Attendance -> grades?
Research
• Real Data Sharing
• Shared tables
• Branching, forking, cloning
• No more lost data
No more “What directory is ‘genome-
final-version-5.csv’ stored
in?”
A smarter MIT!
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