Big Data: The Small Solution to a Big Problem Applying Predictive Analytics to the Online Music Industry
Abstract
Today’s generation is constantly criticized for its obsession with and reliance upon
technology. It is easy to conjure imagery of youth with their thumbs attached to the
keyboards of their phones and headphones glued to their ears. However, while this
disapproval stems from a rational, understandable concern, these critics fail to recognize the
positive aspects brought about by these new hi-tech appendages.
For thousands of years data has been a significant factor in the way cultures develop,
communities function and professionals perform in the workforce. When the ancient
Mesopotamians developed writing, their intention was to create a system for keeping track of
information that might be useful to their culture. Governments, dating back to biblical times,
have conducted censuses to collect records about their citizens, in order to make more
informed decisions about how to organize their community. Actuaries, in addition to other
professionals dealing with risk, have gathered data about the threats they work to avoid, in
the hopes that these pools of figures will reveal innovative information that might assist them
in their work. While these efforts are logical and well founded, they are not always
practically executed. In the analog age, accumulating and interpreting this data was
extremely costly, time-consuming and inefficient; often times the collected data was outdated
by the time the study was completed. Once “digitization,” the process of converting
information into a digital format, became popularized, this data amassing process changed
drastically. Not only did the method for collecting data become more economical and
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conducive to progress, but furthermore, since the data was now stored digitally, it could be
saved and reused for future purposes, regardless the intent of its original collectors. (MayerSchonberg
71-90)
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