Devices, Logs, and Social Media
Learn how devices, logs, and social media can generate data.
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Apple Computer Company was founded by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak in 1976 to build and sell the Apple I computer. Around that time, Bill Gates and Paul Allen at Microsoft started talking about having “a computer on every desk and in every home.”
In the 1980s, there were relatively few applications for computers and limited ways to communicate using computing devices. The first bulky mobile phones could only let people call each other.
Fast forward to more recent times, computing devices have gotten leaner and more capable. Mobile phones are connected to the internet, and tons of applications are available for download onto devices of all sizes (watches, phones, tablets, laptops, desktops, etc.).
Connected devices that generate data
When devices are connected to a network, we can more easily gather data from it.
Consider the light bulb. It’s been the electric alternative to candlelight for over 100 years. However, only recently have there been “smart” light bulbs that can be connected to home networks. Did Thomas Edison imagine that we would turn on an LED light bulb and change its color by voice command to our Amazon Alexa–enabled “smart” speaker? Perhaps not. All the data for such interactions can be collected and stored — a situation that ...