Big data : does size matter? / Timandra Harkness.

By: Harkness, Timandra [author.]Material type: TextTextSeries: Bloomsbury sigma series ; 15.Publisher: London : Bloomsbury Sigma, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Description: 304 pages ; 22 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781472935830 (paperback); 1472935837 (paperback); 9781472920058 (hardback); 1472920058 (hardback)Subject(s): Data mining | Big data -- Popular worksDDC classification: 005.7 LOC classification: QA76.9.B45 | H37 2016
Contents:
What is it? Where did it come from? What is data? And what makes it big? ; Death and taxes. And babies ; Thinking machines -- What has big data ever done for us? Big business ; Big science ; Big society ; Data-driven democracy -- Big ideas? Big Brother ; Who do we think you are? ; Are you a data point or a human being -- Appendix. Keeping your data private.
Summary: "Timandra Harkness cuts through the hype to put data science into its real-life context using a wide range of stories, people, and places to reveal what is essentially a human science--demystifying big data, telling us where it comes from and what it can do. 'Big Data' then asks the awkward questions: What are the unspoken assumptions underlying its methods? Are we being bamboozled by mega data's size, its speed, and its shiny technology? Nobody needs a degree in computer science to follow Harkness's exploration of what mega data can do for us--and what it can't or shouldn't. 'Big Data' asks you to decide: Are you a data point, or a human being?"--
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Includes index.

What is it? Where did it come from? What is data? And what makes it big? ; Death and taxes. And babies ; Thinking machines -- What has big data ever done for us? Big business ; Big science ; Big society ; Data-driven democracy -- Big ideas? Big Brother ; Who do we think you are? ; Are you a data point or a human being -- Appendix. Keeping your data private.

"Timandra Harkness cuts through the hype to put data science into its real-life context using a wide range of stories, people, and places to reveal what is essentially a human science--demystifying big data, telling us where it comes from and what it can do. 'Big Data' then asks the awkward questions: What are the unspoken assumptions underlying its methods? Are we being bamboozled by mega data's size, its speed, and its shiny technology? Nobody needs a degree in computer science to follow Harkness's exploration of what mega data can do for us--and what it can't or shouldn't. 'Big Data' asks you to decide: Are you a data point, or a human being?"--

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