Tuesday, January 12, 2010
The dots may be a blob
There was a headline yesterday in The New York Times, "Military is Awash in Data from Drones," describing the potential information overload the videos taken by drones in Afghanistan and Iraq are creating for the Air Force and the systems being created to deal with it. This also evokes thoughts of why the would-be Nigerian plane bomber's information wasn't processed correctly. One commentator has pointed out that "connect the dots" may be the wrong metaphor for a system generating so many dots that they blend together. The real challenge for intelligence systems, and perhaps for all of us, in this age is how to create systems that filter the information coming to us so that we know where to direct our attention.
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Hire Google! Data-rich way beats data-poor. We have all the processing power we need to sort of a mere 500,000 data point at some decent level of connectivity. Whether they see a blob depends only on the resolving power of their procseeor(s). Tell them to get to work.
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