Predictive Analytics: New Technology That Can Read Your Mind

There is an application that can read your mind via your mobile device. The technological innovation is known as predictive analytics, and Google’s Now app is at the top edge. Other applications that carry out predictive analysis include Grokr and Osito: forecasting the smart phone user’s next move.

How does this work?

An algorithm, resulting in a forecast of the user’s next actions, builds snippets of details.

An example would be mixing snippets of calendar records with the user's place information, email details, online community posts and other like details.

The user is then provided with support the application “thinks” is needed. The support-information is known as a card. A card might, for example, remind the user about a meeting whose details was joined formerly.

The application will then add guidelines to the occasion or show varying climate circumstances at the location—even recommend raingear.

Benefits

• The Google Now application can “understand” perspective and narrow out unrelated details, making searchers easier than ever.
• The Google search engine can now react to more than just individual search phrases and can clearly understand the importance of a search for question. This algorithm is known as Hummingbird and 90 percent queries impact.

An example is that Google can evaluate items on demand or dig up information about various things. For example, just type in the name of a popular landmark—once. If you look for trivia, you will get solutions, but if you then look for directions, Google will know that you want guidelines to this landmark without you having to type in its name again.

• Future locations of the user can be predicted (based on places visited previously), not just the current place.
• Recently, Google and Microsoft researchers came up with software, Far Out, that can find out a user's schedule by means of GPS monitoring. This information is then formed so upcoming places of that user’s can be predicted.
• The configuring can even adjust to link with the user's changes in property or office.

As innovative as all of this seems, this is only the start of a new trend of technological innovation that can “think” for us—a big benefit to those whose lifestyles are so stressful that they have become absentminded, and for those who simply enjoy the idea of having to do less mental work.