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Who knew Disney was such a control freak? I do have to say it is scary to think that everything we do is being tallied and put on some sort of spreadsheet. Even scarier is the fact that we are willing to give our information away or rather give it away cheaply. Target stores recent problems don't have anything on the geotagging that goes on with push notifications, etc. on our smartphones.

It'll be interesting to see companies' approach to big data as more and more businesses invest their money, people and time into analytics. How they collect it, their product design and marketing strategies will all determine whether or not people find their invasion helpful or inappropriate. For example, IBM tells me that their data is eliminating crime from certain areas, so whatever data they've collected from me, they've collected it from criminals too. Facebook allows me to see only adds that reflect my interests and search history, so then I don't have to see ads that don't apply to me. And now Disney wants to give me a better experience and a band I can keep to always remember my time there. Win. Win. Win. The NSA has some stiff competition and maybe if they had a strong marketing department that could flip their message and give customers the rewards they are constantly seeking, I bet people would come around. Maybe it would look something like this Parks and Rec campaign (just kidding): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNCaZT94mg8

There are a lot of interesting and moving parts here. I think this is a smart tool for Disney to use. It sounds like the perfect marriage between finance (getting sales figures in a more organized fashion) and marketing (what people are buying/swiping) that will feed into the best consumer insights information possible. As the article suggests, I do believe this is a more sophisticated (and invasive) form of consumer data gathering like the typical grocery store rewards card. One of the burning questions I have from this though, is will children really be able to swipe everything in sight for purchase? If so, that could mean smiles for Disney and frowns and frustration for parents. The design looks very similar to the Nike Fuelband, and is appealing to the eye. I can see the pros and cons for this one, but overall I wonder what the profit to spend margins would actually be for these MagicBands.

Social media analytics. Who are the humans behind all that data?

big data has gone to the dogs.

I like this company's tag: With spreadsheets, you have to calculate. With visualizations, you have to interpret. But stories are the last mile to harness the power of big data.

Privacy issues and data mining student information beings down a company

Big "personal" data

The contestant is reflecting a cultural shift: "Now everything can be measured, quantified and reduced to statistical probabilities" The march of big data on a beloved game show.

What kind of stories can artists, designers and writers tell when teamed up with data scientists and coders?

A most timely topic....

NSA... phone company customer records....

I have been researching activity trackers for awhile and happened upon this one last week after seeing so many coming new ones coming out of CES. It seems to be different than many of the other ones I have seen and just wanted to share.

I am starting to think it is just me, but these types of wearables freak me out. I understand the health benefits and many of its pros, but I don't want anything monitoring my body all the time. Like those smart contacts, again I can see where they would really help someone, but I would be freaked out having a computer chip on my eye.

I totally see what you're saying Katy. I am not a fan of wearing contacts, so that would be a problem for me, but if it monitord my glucose levels and only I and my healthcare provider were the one's who could view the data I would be ok with it. The activity tracker/wristband thing isn't something I'd even want to wear all the time, just when I'm working out. But yah, not sure I'd want to be "Monitored" all the time! :)

Just found this site Vizify.com it is a web builder site, but it also tracks your activity on the social media sites you want it to. Just thought it was fun to see and maybe helpful too. I thought about @purplekimchi and her tracking charts of our tweets when I saw this.