| Description |
242 pages ; 24 cm |
| Note |
"An Eamon Dolan book." |
| Summary |
"Big data" refers to our newfound ability to crunch a cast quantity of information, analyze it instantly, and draw sometimes astonishing conclusions from it. This emerging approach can translate myriad phenomena--from the price of airline tickets to the text of millions of books--into searchable form and uses our burgeoning computing power to discover epiphanies that we never could have seen before. A revolution on par with the Internet of perhaps even the printing press, big data will change the way we think about business, health, politics, education, and innovation in the years to come. It also poses fresh threats, from the end of privacy as we know it to the prospect of being penalized for things we haven't even done yet, based on big data's ability to predict our future behavior. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [199]-226) and index. |
| Contents |
Now -- More -- Messy -- Correlation -- Datafication -- Value -- Implications -- Risks -- Control -- Next. |
| Subject |
Big data -- Social aspects.
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Data mining -- Social aspects.
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Internet -- Social aspects.
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Electronic information resources -- Social aspects.
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Technological innovations -- Social aspects.
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Social change.
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| Added Author |
Cukier, Kenneth.
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| ISBN |
0544002695 hardcover |
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9780544002692 hardcover |
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