Today I realised that the evidence for Digital being the New Normal was compelling when I read about the way that the agricultural industry is embracing IoT, Big Data and Machine Learning (see: FoodIT: Fork to Farm ) which provides comprehensive overview of the 4th annual conference examining how to join the ecosystem from consumer to farmer up, so that farms respond to consumer tastes, improve yields, avoid waste and provide the provenance etc. that consumers now want. There are great opportunities to provide the next Deliveroo for farm products and by-pass the super markets entirely. This would greatly improve profitability for farmers and the experience for customers as they get fresh, seasonal, sustainable, quality products directly. It could also bypass the scandal of the modern monopoly of slaughter houses, if the right investments were made.
I especially enjoyed the redefining IoT by the conference as the Internet of Tomatoes, spelling out how much the industry has got into it.
There were also some interesting predictions for Data in another couple of articles on the data makes possible site by Kirk Borne of Booz Allen Hamilton about trends for this year. Personally I found his comments on graph analytics the most compelling as this is an area of growing maturity in which it is now possible to easily uncover insights into linkages of cause and affect and networks of people and activity. He also had interesting things to say about hyper personalisation and realigning AI with a people centric model of mutual assistance to do more (similar to some of my previous observations). Finally he coined a new phrase DataOps to describe lean development approaches as applied to big data.
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