Can U.S.

Women’s Cycling Team Beat All

Odds at the 2012 London Olympics?
 Before London, the U.S. women
hadn’t won a track medal in 20 years.

The four cyclists would compete in

training…but their times seemed to
go up, not down.

They could no longer break 3:20.

 Sky Christopherson, a former USA Cycling teammate

After a decade away from competitive cycling, and after suffering a heart
attack scare in December 2009, Sky had set a master’s world record, 10.49
seconds, in the 200-meter velodrome sprint

“If you can get the data, big data, on each individual about what makes them
tick,” says Dr. Eric Topol, “that is … going to unlock particular secrets for them.”
Personal Gold, a documentary premiering at the Seattle
International Film Festival on May 16
Big Data Landscape
Big Data Ecosystem
 (machines, network , connectors, firewall, load balancer, servers, virtual resources)
Business people Business Analyst
Customer Decision makers

(security, privacy, safety, functioning, management, ownership, structure)

(protocols, connectors, handlers, adapters, APIs, constraints, exceptions)
Utilization Business
Visualization Discovery Reporting Monitoring
process

(administration, control, delegation, execution)

Physical and Virtual Infrastructure

Interfaces and Integration

Policies and Governance

Analytic Engine

System Management
Model Management
Analytics

Recommendation Model Decision Functional

engine execution management models

Data ingestion Data wrangling

lookout
Data acquisition Distributed file
Data digestion
storage

Internet of things Legacy systems

Sources Human generated Data management

Data stores
content system
Aggregate data
Structured Semi-Structured Unstructured
providers
 (Infrastructure, policies, governance, management and control)
Conceptualization Design Development Marketing

Primary Testing Deployment Monitoring

Servicing

Secondary Storage Distribution Processing

Others Crowd innovation Crowd sourcing