Big Data On The Keyboard
Summary
Often we don’t even notice the “big data” aspect of our daily encounters with technology, such as when it comes to the autocorrect feature on mobile devices, word-processing programs, email clients and more. When you factor in the programmable capacity for foreign languages, as well, and the “swipe” option of many smartphone keyboards, the near-infinite number of combinations is a matter of big data, indeed. If no match is found, then the phone is programmed to offer alternatives, some of which are correct, some of which make sense, even if they weren’t what you’d had in mind, and some of which provide the fodder for the comical online autocorrect compilations. Programmers face some challenges in determining which key strokes yield which suggested words, including: That is, if you type “taxos,” did you mean “taxis” or “tacos”? Programmers have devised a course of analysis that pays attention to the way we organize our sentences, the prominence and repetition of any given word, spelling and possible transposition and, of course, the keyboard layout that makes hitting the wrong key all too easy.
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