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Friday, September 20, 2013

Web Intelligence and Data Analysis - Unit 1 (coursera)

Reverse Turing Test : Machines are trying to understand who is using it based on usage patterns. Example : Captcha trys to determine if its a human or a machine trying to login. 

WebScale AI : Face recognition, Google language conversion, IBM Watson playing jeopardy 

Big Data: Map Reduce paradigm to analyze data on the web when its not in the form of clean traditional databases. 
Kryder's Law : Talks about the Rate of data storage density outstripping the rate of Moore's Law. 


Web Intelligence is used for predicting : online advertizing, guaging consumer sentiment and predicting behavior, processing twitter words to spot trends 


source : https://class.coursera.org/bigdata-003/class/index

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