Big Data
In a conversation with a few friends over the weekend, it suddenly occurred to me, that a lot of small company information lies in so many CAD formats to just plain old word, and text files . practices hold vast amounts of data, so often stored away in a variety of formats, from defunct documents like wordstar, remember that, scanned drawings, the current collection of CAD file formats , IFC , and spreadsheets in the millions.. The trick will be to pull this information into a single cohesive viewable format, so welcome to big data , and the incomprehesable world of fragmented data. I was always taught, keep data simple and regulated, but data is so often not cooperating in this, its all over the place and in so many different formats, and its often corrupted in some form or other. So how do we get all this information to talk, thats the quest I am now on, its a long term project, but all linked to my CAD, BIM , internet of things paper, the more I look the more it expa...