{"id":11658,"date":"2025-09-01T09:16:56","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T16:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/?p=11658"},"modified":"2025-09-01T10:10:26","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T17:10:26","slug":"big-data-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/2025\/09\/01\/big-data-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Data"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"404\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/files\/2020\/05\/Big-Data-1024x404.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-274\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/files\/2020\/05\/Big-Data-1024x404.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/files\/2020\/05\/Big-Data-300x118.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/files\/2020\/05\/Big-Data-768x303.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/files\/2020\/05\/Big-Data.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Discussion:<\/strong>\u00a0 \u201c<strong>Big data<\/strong>\u201d includes large, complex, diverse, and unstructured collections of data sets that cannot be easily parsed with common tools. These massive data sets are gathered by a range of technologies, including mobile devices. As data sets grow in size, so too must our ability and capacity to capture, store, analyze, search, visualize, and share information in its ever-increasing volume, variety, velocity, and complexity. Remember that generative AI works on LLMs (Large Language Models) that train themselves on every piece of writing available, so imagine what happens when the training ground shifts from words to images, and our AIs begin to learn from countless video feeds?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>523 Inspiration:<\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;How&nbsp;<em>big<\/em>&nbsp;is&nbsp;<strong>big data<\/strong>&nbsp;to education? Along with its younger siblings\u2014data mining, data visualization, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and learning analytics\u2014<strong>big data<\/strong>&nbsp;is one of&nbsp;<em>the<\/em>&nbsp;most influential frontiers in education. One of the most compelling aspects of&nbsp;<strong>big data<\/strong>&nbsp;is its reach: this bird\u2019s eye view of information is increasingly (re)shaping knowledge and knowledge production, technology and application development, education as a field of practice and research, and how public and private sectors seek to improve education as well as address its problems and challenges, both locally and internationally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discussion:\u00a0 \u201cBig data\u201d includes large, complex, diverse, and unstructured collections of data sets that cannot be easily parsed with common tools. These massive data sets&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/2025\/09\/01\/big-data-8\/\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Big Data<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":274,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-w01-frontiers-poll","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11658"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11677,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11658\/revisions\/11677"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}