Do What Matters

Its time for team based project for my Fall class at SJSU again. It requires a great deal of passion and team effort to do something that has not done before. I always encourage my students to think big and solve a problem which has not been solved before. And trust me, there are plenty of problems which might have solutions but either they are not uniquely addressing the problem or they can't be afforded by the masses. Anyway, here again I am posting some ideas that you can research and brainstorm to come up on a problem statement. 1. Barcode of Life (DNA Barcoding) DNA barcoding is a molecular-based identification system that aims to identify biological specimens, and to assign them to a given species.  DNA based identification for multi cellular life is an emerging concept and scientists from 25 countries have got together to create a database of DNA barcodes (BOLD) to solve multi-faceted problems.  Here are some potential use cases: a) Timber and wild life traff...

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Let me start by sharing my new year resolution because its a tradition :) All passionate people like me fight at work, at home and when we fight, someone looses. Looser may not be the two persons fighting but the cause itself. Project suffers, your colleague looses morale and business does not achieve results. So I am going to find ways to create situations where everybody wins. I am working on how part and will share when I have concrete ideas. For now, the reflections on the past year. Professionally, 2015 was exciting, fast, and fruitful. At work, I led and drove many major initiatives for transforming our data and analytics business into cloud. dashDB has been a huge success. Seeing it grow in terms of values it provide to data analysts and data scientists and the customer base, it always reminds me the day 0 when few of us created this cloud offering focusing completely on users. R analytics always has been the value for both quick productive use and long term machine learnin...

Signup for free IBM Bluemix cloud and use Spark Service to try these out. These are excellent use cases for beginners. After that you can move on to developing complex algorithm and run on larger data sets and leverage the true distributed computing power of Spark.  1. Use train wreck datasets  http://www.trainwreckdb.com/  (Links to an external site.)  to allow user to query the accidents based on keywords such as Bicycle, pedestrian  2. Use NHTSA data to allow user to query fatalities based on some keyword  http://www.nhtsa.gov/FARS  (Links to an external site.)   3. Use virtual sensor app  http://virtualsensors.mybluemix.net/  (Links to an external site.)  to generate gps location and wind speed to predict fire spread  4. Use Spark Streaming to learn network conditions in real time, use  http://virtualsensors.mybluemix.net/  (Links to an external site.)  app to generate network data...

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