Data overload they call it. It’s where we have so much data that we just can’t process it effectively. Yet storage devices are being created so we can keep doing it without being forced to sort it out. Isn’t technology wonderful. I’m more guilty of this than the people I advise professionally to sort it out. On the plus side I don’t lose it I’ve got it all stored on my local servers and just keep adding to it. So no losses due to ISPs changing or whatever. On the negative side I still have my expenses data from 1990 and every version of my CV from when I got my 1st PC, all the data from the Y2K programme I managed and every project since then.
Sort it and keep it organised is what I tell the customer. Add in new data into the existing structure and ensure it is sorted.
If only I listened to my own advice. I have 4 Terabytes of data in various formats, pictures, videos and text. All in folders marked to be sorted and with a date. Just waiting for the time, when I will get round to sorting it, it will come, not because I have become efficient but because software will become available that will allow it to happen.
I was looking at creating it myself but as usual with my ideas I don’t have the resources. I want a graphics programme that will recognise a picture of a car and record it in the right catagory, kittens in another and my family members in another and so on. Recording the details in a searchable database. Flagging the few odds it can’t recognise for human inspection. Same with the books and text files, although that should be easier, just read all the words into a database and use them to search on with a link to the book. I really should get started on that one. It is in line with what I do and I’m getting fed up with knowing I have something yet being unable to find it within a reasonable time as I end up leaving it searching overnight.
On the plus side when I do get around to sorting it out I would envisage my actual storage requirements would go right down so I won’t need those bricks in the article.
Guilty as charged
Data overload they call it. It’s where we have so much data that we just can’t process it effectively. Yet storage devices are beingcreated so we can keep doing it without being forced to sort it out. Isn’t technology wonderful. I’m more guilty of this than the people I advise professionally to sort it out. On the plus side I don’t lose it I’ve got it all stored on my local servers and just keep adding to it. So no losses due to ISPs changing or whatever. On the negative side I still have my expenses data from 1990 and every version of my CV from when I got my 1st PC, all the data from the Y2K programme I managed and every project since then.
Sort it and keep it organised is what I tell the customer. Add in new data into the existing structure and ensure it is sorted.
If only I listened to my own advice. I have 4 Terabytes of data in various formats, pictures, videos and text. All in folders marked to be sorted and with a date. Just waiting for the time, when I will get round to sorting it, it will come, not because I have become efficient but because software will become available that will allow it to happen.
I was looking at creating it myself but as usual with my ideas I don’t have the resources. I want a graphics programme that will recognise a picture of a car and record it in the right catagory, kittens in another and my family members in another and so on. Recording the details in a searchable database. Flagging the few odds it can’t recognise for human inspection. Same with the books and text files, although that should be easier, just read all the words into a database and use them to search on with a link to the book. I really should get started on that one. It is in line with what I do and I’m getting fed up with knowing I have something yet being unable to find it within a reasonable time as I end up leaving it searching overnight.
On the plus side when I do get around to sorting it out I would envisage my actual storage requirements would go right down so I won’t need those bricks in the article.