In addition to helping line up hackathon sponsorships and working on YouTube videos, here are the areas I'm planning on focusing my efforts over the next few months.
#1: Public Data Marketplace: "SODA Tap" [1] Since I started here at Numenta over 4 years ago, there's always been talk of an emerging "public data marketplace" where anyone could choose the temporal data they wanted to stream into their HTM system, simply selecting it from a list of potential data sets, building up an HTM analysis of the data, and getting results somehow in a "self-service" fashion. Only recently has the internet caught up with our lofty vision, and the Socrata Open Data API (SODA) [2] is the most mature incarnation I've found of this idea. I've been experimenting with a program that scours all open data available through SODA and saves metadata about temporal data streams that could be processed with HTM. The process is not perfect, but it is a start. I would like to provide a website that looks and feels like River View, but actually does not store any data streams, simply displaying all the temporal data available through Socrata. Client applications would find the temporal streams through the website's API, but make all data calls directly through SODA. In this manner, the footprint of the website "index" of temporal streams is very small and manageable even under heavy usage, offloading all the heavy lifting to Socrata. I'll be speccing out this project for Andrew Malta to work on, and hopefully we will end up with something that can not only discover temporal streams available through SODA, but index them in a searchable interface, and make them available to client code that can feed the data directly into HTM systems wherever they run. #2: IoT Analysis Showcase: "SmartThings HTM Bridge" [3] As more IoT conferences emerge, I'd like to have a showcase of what HTM can do with real IoT data. I have months and months of data from the SmartThings hub in our office, and I want to continue working on data aggregation and model param tweaking in an effort to find something really valuable that HTM can provide for IoT data in our office. It is a bit of a needle in the haystack, but I think well-worth the effort even if we can show anomaly indictions that correspond to something happening in the real world. If I can finish this and turn it into a showcase app, we could show this demo at IoT conferences. #3: Geospatial Anomaly Showcase: "Paso Trucks" Much like the IoT project, I'd like to have a real-world geospatial anomaly detection application canned and ready to take to events. The current example is cool, but applying it to a large real-world dataset is much more powerful. I'm currently negotiating the openness of the data set (I had to make it private, hopefully temporarily). But planning on revisiting this. I was just starting to see some interesting things when I stopped working on this before the last hackathon. I have not had time to put towards it again. Thanks for reading this long email. I am open to thoughts and suggestions. If anyone else wants to share any HTM projects they are currently working on, please do! [1] https://github.com/nupic-community/soda-tap/ [2] https://www.socrata.com/products/open-data/ [3] https://github.com/nupic-community/smartthings.htm.bridge Regards, --------- Matt Taylor OS Community Flag-Bearer Numenta
