They say that 'Big Data' experts will be much needed in the very near future. And anything farter from the reality: the large amount of data we generate every day is immense. Currently there are companies in our market that are achieving a good market share in this area. This is the case of Atomian. It is a Catalan company that is dedicated to organizing all that accumulation of information in a single brain. The result? Respond to the user in a matter of seconds.
Atomian works with un cognitive capable of perfectly understanding the human being. In other words, the user should only ask - always natural - Atomian about a question, a specific piece of information; the will return the most suitable answer. But, How does Atomian work so that even FC Barcelona itself is working under him?
Atomian works with 'atoms of knowledge' - as they have been called - which are extracted from documents or from any external source. Of course, all the information collected is gathered in a single place and is ordered so that its performance is fast and reliable. Also, Atomian currently works in two languages: English and Spanish. Although the company assures that they are working to add more languages in the future. In addition, its services can be used both in the health field, as in banking, travel, insurance, among others. It's more, With the use of Atomian, the query time is reduced by 75%. This is unthinkable if we are the ones who —manually— access all the information. Until you reach the final result, it may take minutes or hours.
Getting fully into the case of FC Barcelona and Atomian we find that this collects the data of all the players of the entity. But when we talk about everyone we are talking about all the categories and all the disciplines that are practiced in the sports club.
Meanwhile, Atomian is not only predisposed to collect medical data. In an interview for the portal Digital Economy, a company spokesperson comments that also draw on all the data generated while training on the grass, in the gym machine room or while eating. In short: it is the Big Brother of the sports entity. With all the data stored and organized on Atomian's own servers, the will send results to the coaches in a few seconds. In this way, they can check the evolution of the player in real time. Moreover, it is an essential tool to know at the moment what are the virtues of a given player. This last point may be very interesting for lower categories in which there may be candidates to jump to the first team.