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Big Data: The Essential Guide to Work, Life and Learning in the Age of Insight
Viktor Mayer-Schonberger
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Description for Big Data: The Essential Guide to Work, Life and Learning in the Age of Insight
Paperback. Edward Snowdon exposed Big Data. Here is the ultimate guide. Cory Doctorow (Boing Boing) says: "Just the thing to get your head around the big changes already underway". Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: GPH; KJC; KJMD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 25. Weight in Grams: 226.
New and expanded edition. An International Bestseller - Over One Million Copies Sold! Shortlisted for the Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award. Since Aristotle, we have fought to understand the causes behind everything. But this ideology is fading. In the age of big data, we can crunch an incomprehensible amount of information, providing us with invaluable insights about the what rather than the why. We're just starting to reap the benefits: tracking vital signs to foresee deadly infections, predicting building fires, anticipating the best moment ... Read more
New and expanded edition. An International Bestseller - Over One Million Copies Sold! Shortlisted for the Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award. Since Aristotle, we have fought to understand the causes behind everything. But this ideology is fading. In the age of big data, we can crunch an incomprehensible amount of information, providing us with invaluable insights about the what rather than the why. We're just starting to reap the benefits: tracking vital signs to foresee deadly infections, predicting building fires, anticipating the best moment ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton General Division
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781473647206
SKU
V9781473647206
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About Viktor Mayer-Schonberger
Viktor Mayer-Schonberger (Author) Viktor Mayer-Schoenberger is Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation at Oxford University following a decade on the faculty of Harvard's Kennedy School. He is one of the most respected authorities on what is happening in the big data arena. His book, Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age is considered a seminal ... Read more
Reviews for Big Data: The Essential Guide to Work, Life and Learning in the Age of Insight
'Just as water is wet in a way that individual water molecules aren't, big data can reveal information in a way that individual bits of data can't. Mayer-Schonberger and Cukier show us the surprising ways that enormous, complex and messy collections of data can be used to predict everything from shopping patterns to flu outbreaks' - Clay Shirky, author of ... Read more