In these days of Increasingly Bigger Data, it will become very important to understand the big picture that could be derived from this data. There are tow related approaches that one could use to provide this big picture: Summarization and Storytelling. These two are related, but not the same. In summarization, the goal is to [...]
We talked about micro stories. At the other end of data-driven story telling is something that I would call, just to contrast it directly with micro story, a mega story. In mega story, one uses lots and lots of data that may have been collected over a long time. This data represents events at many [...]
Given the status of technology today, it is very easy to capture experiential data, such as photos, for events and even organize them. That means that one can now easily store experiential data and use it to tell stories. This means that now that the stories can have more real data associated with them. In [...]
When you are given a very large number of events, say millions, and you need to tell a story then what would you do? In good old days, the computational task of ‘remembering’ and then selecting such events was very different. You could just not remember so many events and could not store them even [...]
We are witnessing the ‘rise of Big Data’ in the last few years. The growth in the rate of the production of the data seems to be only accelerating. So one needs to ask a very important question – what is the real source in the creation of the big data and how can it [...]