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Images in 'The Human Face of Big Data'

One person featured in the "Big Data" book is graphics designer Nick Felton. Felton hoards information and is known in the design world as the father of the Feltron Annual Report, an in-depth infographic covering an amazing array of details of his life over the course of a year -- ranging from miles traveled per day to songs listened to at meals.
One person featured in the "Big Data" book is graphics designer Nick Felton. Felton hoards information and is known in the design world as the father of the Feltron Annual Report, an in-depth infographic covering an amazing array of details of his life over the course of a year -- ranging from miles traveled per day to songs listened to at meals.
Nathaniel Welch
Fred Smith, founder and chairman of FedEx, center, speaks to employees in a company hangar in Memphis. FedEx is a global shipping giant with 300,000 team members, 90,000 motorized vehicles, and a fleet of 690 aircraft. FedEx computers handle about 2.2 billion transactions per day.
Fred Smith, founder and chairman of FedEx, center, speaks to employees in a company hangar in Memphis. FedEx is a global shipping giant with 300,000 team members, 90,000 motorized vehicles, and a fleet of 690 aircraft. FedEx computers handle about 2.2 billion transactions per day.
FedEx
Full or partial blindness due to retinal disease affects an estimated 25 million people around the world. Sheila Nirenberg, an associate professor at Weill Cornell Medical College, and her team embedded custom software in microprocessors and cameras built into eyeglasses. Images captured by the cameras will be translated into code in the form of thousands of pulsing lights, which can be recognized by the brain.
Full or partial blindness due to retinal disease affects an estimated 25 million people around the world. Sheila Nirenberg, an associate professor at Weill Cornell Medical College, and her team embedded custom software in microprocessors and cameras built into eyeglasses. Images captured by the cameras will be translated into code in the form of thousands of pulsing lights, which can be recognized by the brain.
Joe McNally
Professor John Guttag, left, co-head of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory's Networks and Mobile Systems Group, and Collin Stultz, cardiologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Harvard University have researched the information provided by EKGs and discovered a way to analyze the massive amount of information provided by a patient. A cardiologist may examine 30 or 40 seconds of information from a patient who generates days worth of information, and in doing so may miss critical events that are only obvious after lengthy review.
Professor John Guttag, left, co-head of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory's Networks and Mobile Systems Group, and Collin Stultz, cardiologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Harvard University have researched the information provided by EKGs and discovered a way to analyze the massive amount of information provided by a patient. A cardiologist may examine 30 or 40 seconds of information from a patient who generates days worth of information, and in doing so may miss critical events that are only obvious after lengthy review.
Jason Grow
Unmanned aerial vehicles are transforming modern military intelligence by swiftly gathering and sifting through data. Currently, 8,000 unmanned drones collect 800 hours of full-motion video for the U.S. military each day.
Unmanned aerial vehicles are transforming modern military intelligence by swiftly gathering and sifting through data. Currently, 8,000 unmanned drones collect 800 hours of full-motion video for the U.S. military each day.
Ethan Miller, Getty Images
How much of what we put in a recycling bin is actually recycled and how much of it winds up in a dump, miles from its intended destination? The MIT SENSEable City Lab created the Trash Track Project to find out. Five hundred volunteers attached tiny transmitters to 3,000 common household trash items. Using cellphone technology, the tags transmitted the location of the trash, enabling the team to triangulate its location on a map.
How much of what we put in a recycling bin is actually recycled and how much of it winds up in a dump, miles from its intended destination? The MIT SENSEable City Lab created the Trash Track Project to find out. Five hundred volunteers attached tiny transmitters to 3,000 common household trash items. Using cellphone technology, the tags transmitted the location of the trash, enabling the team to triangulate its location on a map.
MIT Senseable City Lab
Armed with 10,000 GPS-enabled cellphones, workers have fanned out across northern Nigeria to vaccinate people against polio. Their progress is mapped in real time using an Android-based application.
Armed with 10,000 GPS-enabled cellphones, workers have fanned out across northern Nigeria to vaccinate people against polio. Their progress is mapped in real time using an Android-based application.
Andrew Esiebo
Modern storm chasers Rutger Boonstra and Josh Barnwell watch clouds developing in Goshen County, Wyo. Storm chasers travel thousands of miles each year in pursuit of nature's most terrifying phenomena. Their goal is to get as close to hurricanes, tornadoes, blizzards and wildfires as possible to capture data that will help scientists understand how nature works.
Modern storm chasers Rutger Boonstra and Josh Barnwell watch clouds developing in Goshen County, Wyo. Storm chasers travel thousands of miles each year in pursuit of nature's most terrifying phenomena. Their goal is to get as close to hurricanes, tornadoes, blizzards and wildfires as possible to capture data that will help scientists understand how nature works.
2009 Photo By Ryan McGinnis
Cardiac defibrillators implanted in patients such as Hugo Campos make it possible for their congenital conditions to be monitored wirelessly. The device transmits data back to the manufacturer and alerts doctors in the event of a problem.
Cardiac defibrillators implanted in patients such as Hugo Campos make it possible for their congenital conditions to be monitored wirelessly. The device transmits data back to the manufacturer and alerts doctors in the event of a problem.
Laura A. Oda, San Jose Mercury News
Call it a ?Peace Corps of geeks. That's the phrase Jennifer Pahlka sometimes uses for Code for America, the San Francisco non-profit she founded and runs. She is shown here (in red shirt on the couch) surrounded by her 2012 Code for America Fellows. The goal of Code for America is a daunting one: to connect hotshot young Web designers and developers with the least tech-savvy, and least tech-interested, sector of American life: local and state governments.
Call it a ?Peace Corps of geeks. That's the phrase Jennifer Pahlka sometimes uses for Code for America, the San Francisco non-profit she founded and runs. She is shown here (in red shirt on the couch) surrounded by her 2012 Code for America Fellows. The goal of Code for America is a daunting one: to connect hotshot young Web designers and developers with the least tech-savvy, and least tech-interested, sector of American life: local and state governments.
Timothy Archibald
Claire Robertson is one of the first people in the world to wear a groundbreaking artificial enhanced memory device: a wide-angle digital necklace camera called a SenseCam, complete with storage. It allows Robertson, who suffered a viral infection that wiped out her episodic memory, to relive her recent life. The device takes a photograph every 30 seconds from her point of view. At the end of the day, it uploads the resulting hundreds of images to a personal computer. That gives Claire a concise visual diary that she can review and discuss with her loved ones.
Claire Robertson is one of the first people in the world to wear a groundbreaking artificial enhanced memory device: a wide-angle digital necklace camera called a SenseCam, complete with storage. It allows Robertson, who suffered a viral infection that wiped out her episodic memory, to relive her recent life. The device takes a photograph every 30 seconds from her point of view. At the end of the day, it uploads the resulting hundreds of images to a personal computer. That gives Claire a concise visual diary that she can review and discuss with her loved ones.
Lauren Fleishman
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