Android and iOS: We often look at the silent tracking conducted
by our mobile devices as a bad thing, but if put to good use
that data can help us solve problems and learn more about each
other. The Human Face of Big Data is an app for your iPhone or
Android that asks to anonymously track you and ask you questions
over the course of the next week in hopes of drawing some
interesting and useful conclusions about how we live and work.
You may remember an app called folding@home that asked you to
donate your excess computing power to create the world's largest
distributed supercomputer. This remotely networked machine of
donated CPU cycles could then solve mathematical equations
related to protein folding and help unlock mysteries behind
diseases. The Human Face of Big Data is a similar project, in
that it asks you to anonymously contribute the data your phone
collects on a daily basis. Additionally, you can answer
interesting questions about yourself and the collected
information may point to your data doppelgä