Hope every one had a good “NEW YEAR CELEBRATION”
While interacting about DWH for human beings, one of my colleague
asked me a question, 'what is the use of having such an application?'
I asked him, have you ever wondered what our parents
concerns were while we are growing and on same term, what are our concerns about
our kids?
He came back with a list,
- What is my kid’s educational interest?
- What is my kid’s sports interest?
- What is my kid’s health condition?
- Is there any change in the attitude that I have to concern for?
- How much I have to earn to make him to go for his interest? ………
I said, ‘all these questions can be answered by having a DWH
for human being or ourselves’
The application may not be providing answers, but it will
provide necessary insight for us to find the answers.
Let us see how it can help
What is my Kids educational Interest? Today what
we do to answer this question is
- Just ask our kids to go to school and let the school identify or report to us, what is their interest?
- Some parents even force the kids to accept, what is available & affordable to them.
- Some parents spend their time in observing the kids activities and conclude themselves that he is interested in some field. Some time this approach gives better result some times don’t
- Some parents ask or discuss with their close friends / relation to finalise the kid’s interest.
- In western countries, most parents leave the kids to explore the world and find their own interest.
I’m not saying the above methods are wrong. My point is what
is the probability of identifying the kid’s interest correctly by following the
above said methods? Hardly a 50% success rate.
What we are talking here is we are trying for an application
which will help us to achieve to an 80% success rate.
Scientific researchers had proved that,’ the kid’s interest
can be identified by closely monitoring their activities from age of 6 to 14’.
Consider each parents spends 5 min daily to enter the child’s
activities and reaction on various activities into this application (like the
time spent on drawing, time spent on reading story books, time spent on dancing
or physical activities, his energy level in doing various activities, his
reaction to various activated suggested by us etc… (This list for illustration
purpose only)). Down the line in 2 years we will have a pattern for our kid’s
in our hand. This will guide us to find our kids interest. We can plan
accordingly and help them in their growth.
What we do today is taking a slow and single dimensional approach
and by the time we find their interest the precious time is lost or we have
already invested in the field which our kid’s hate.
The only thing we require is to have discipline in updating the application regularly for the data to be built. Once we do that,
we can analyse how the kids are performing. Even we can compare between other's who are having similar characteristics,
across the world. Even we can collaborate this analysis with various parties (Schools,
Doctors, Friends, Elder parents etc…) to find where our kid’s are moving towards.
This application can be used from toddlers to old people. Some times it helps us
to unlock the inherent strength of our kids for that case even ourselves.
As it has been proven for ages there will be signs before
anything happens in the world. Like the animals migrate, before the change of
season or before a major catastrophic (earth quake, volcano etc…). There are
signs in our life too. Only we have to do is, look for signs. This application
helps us to notice those signs before it is too late.
At the end of our conversation he said “Let us figure out
how we can achieve this ….”
While continuing my thoughts I came across one organization
that does a data warehousing (DWH) for human being. That is 100plus.com
What they do is they use the data warehousing technology and
their analytics process to analyse our individual health input and come out
with a better prediction of our health in the near future.
We are seeing that this technology (DWH for humans) is
taking pace in the world. Hope my friends 3rd concern (What is my
kid’s health condition) about kids is taken care by 100plus.com currently.
My biggest gripe with Amazon is their book recommendations are so one dimensional. If I like one book by an author, it recommends all the other books by the same author. I want them to say "If you like this Sci Fi book, and this historical novel, and this philosophy book, then you might like this really unexpected pick in this unrelated category!" ie, help me find things I would never find on my own, cross tabulating multiple people with diverse interests. If we can use Data Warehousing technologies to help kids find career paths they would never have considered based on diverse interests and skills, then we may be on to something.
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