Data First

Track 100

King Chung Huang

Portfolio Manager

data

|ˈdatə, ˈdātə|

noun

the quantities, characters, or symbols on which operations are performed by a computer, being stored and transmitted in the form of electrical signals and recorded on magnetic, optical, or mechanical recording media.

Basic Function of Apps

HTTP request
database records
files
mouse clicks
signals

Application

event logs
database records
HTML page
graph
PDF document

King of the Hill?

Lions & Lion Cubs, by fortherock on Flickr

http://www.flickr.com/photos/fortherock/3897933839/

Peers

Lions & Lion Cubs, by fortherock on Flickr

http://www.flickr.com/photos/fortherock/3898651436/

Track Objectives

study techniques and technologies that emphasize data as a major factor in their design
understand how treating data as a entity unto itself can affect the design of solutions that we deliver
big data, APIs, analytics, NoSQL, internet of things

Data First

May 30, 2013