May 2019
Beginner
528 pages
29h 51m
English
Google’s Waze GPS navigation app, with its 90 million monthly active users,75 is one of the most widely used big-data apps. Early GPS navigation devices and apps relied on static maps and GPS coordinates to determine the best route to your destination. They could not adjust dynamically to changing traffic situations.
Waze processes massive amounts of crowdsourced data—that is, the data that’s continuously supplied by their users and their users’ devices worldwide. They analyze this data as it arrives to determine the best route to get you to your destination in the least amount of time. To accomplish this, Waze relies on your smartphone’s Internet connection. ...
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