Big Data: Does Size Matter?
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| Rating | : | 4.82 (782 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1543625398 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 108 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-02-21 |
| Language | : | English |
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Harkness wisely notes the limitations and inherent dangers of using Big Data, exploring fears of a “Big Brother” society and individuals’ loss of privacy in a balanced and thoughtful way. "A comprehensive and accessible overview of the ubiquity of data collection in modern society. A great addition to business, computer science, and public policy collections." - Dan Kaplan, Booklist"A thoughtful, reader-friendly assessment of an ongoing, revolutionary change, Big Data: Does Size Matter? is highly recommended especially for public and college library collections." - Midwest Book Review. Throughout, Harkness puts her comedian persona to good use, and her clever asides make this tour of Big Data both smart and fun." - Publishers Weekly"A pleasing excursion into the daunting terrain of c
Four Stars Interesting read. There's hints of witticisms.
Timandra Harkness is a writer and comedian who co-wrote and performed Your Days Are Numbered: The Maths of Death with stand-up mathematician Matt Parker at the Edinburgh Fringe. . She lives in London. She is a regular on BBC Radio and her articles have been published in Men's Health and the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society
It can predict what you'll buy, where you'll be the victim of crime and when you'll have a heart attack. Starting with the basics - what is data? And what makes it big? - Timandra takes you on a whirlwind tour of how people are using big data today: from science to smart cities, business to politics, self-quantification to the Internet of Things. Big data knows you better than you know yourself, or so it claims. But how well do you know big data? You've probably seen the phrase in newspaper headlines, at work in a marketing meeting, or on a fitness-tracking gadget. But can you understand it without being a Silicon Valley nerd who writes computer programs for fun? Yes. It also contains puns, asides, unlikely stories, engaging people, inspiring feats and thought-provoking dilemmas, leaving you armed and ready to decide what you think about one of the decade's big ideas: big data.. Big data knows where you've been and who your friends are. Timandra Harkness writes comedy, not computer code. Yes, you can. Finally, she asks the big questions about where it's taking us: is it too big for its boots, or does it think too small? Are you a data point or a human being? Will this book be full of rhetorical questions? No. The only programmes she makes are on the radio. It