Data Analytics: Practical Guide to Leveraging the Power of Algorithms, Data Science, Data Mining, Statistics, Big Data, and Predictive Analysis to Improve Business, Work, and Life

Higher Education: Big data can make higher education accessible to more
people by decreasing its costs. Although the United States is considered to
be the land of opportunity, higher education is difficult for the average
person to pursue – since tuition costs rise at double the rate of health care.
When compared to the country’s Consumer Price Index, the price of college
comes in at four times higher. With the innovations to make websites easier
to navigate and safer to do so, the availability of online educational
resources is also growing and becoming available to more people. The
Khan Academy (
www.khanacademy.org
), Big Data University
(
www.BigDataUniversity.com
), Venture Labs (
www.venture-labs.org
), and
Coursera (
www.coursera.org
) are only a few institutions who offer online
higher education at reduced prices – sometimes even free. What’s great
about these institutions is that the student is tested on how well they can
implement the skills taught because the courses offer material that can be
applied to the high-tech environment we all live in. For instance, Big Data
University teaches Hadoop® and other technologies related to data.
Employment: Big data can also make it easier for job seekers who turn to
the online environment to search for employment opportunities. On
average, the number of job searches conducted online reaches nearly 1.5
billion per month. There are already websites that collect information about
employers which can be used to match them with job seekers, like
www.indeed.com
.

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Road Safety: For teens aged 16-19 in the United States, the leading cause
of death is traffic-related incidents. It should be noted that 75% of these
deaths are not related to driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol.
This leaves the majority of accidents resulting from poor judgment. What
does this mean when it comes to big data? As scientists continue to make
advances in how computers work, big data will be able to ‘learn’ behavior
patterns of drivers and even predict the moves a car will make at given
points. The end goal of this research is to allow vehicles to communicate
with one another and up to a distance of three cars around them in any
direction. It is thought that advanced versions of this type of data collection
will allow one driver to see small details such as the posture and focus of
the driver in another vehicle near them. As outlandish as it may seem,
Google’s self-driven cars have already revolutionized the industry.