Meaning of reality mining | Babel Free

Definitions

The collection and analysis of machine-sensed environmental data pertaining to human social behavior, with the goal of identifying predictable patterns of behavior.

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Examples

“Most working professionals already carry⟳ microphones (cell phones), and many also carry⟳ PDAs with ample computational horsepower. This foundation of mobile communications and processing power will support⟳ an exciting new suite of business applications: reality mining.”

“Practitioners of Reality Mining soon discover⟳ the multitudes of analytic techniques suitable for their data sets.”

“From the start⟳, [Alex] Pentland understood reality mining as the gateway to a new universe of commercial opportunities. In 2004 he asserted that cell phones and other wearable devices with “computational horsepower” would provide⟳ the “foundation” for reality mining as an “exciting new suite of business applications.””

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