Big Data

Big Data

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A New York Times bestseller. Longlisted 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 to buy a plane ticket, seeing inflation in real time and monitoring social media in order to identify trends. But there is a dark side to big data. Will it be machines, rather than people, that make the decisions? How do you regulate an algorithm? What will happen to privacy? Will individuals be punished for acts they have yet to commit? In this groundbreaking and fascinating book, two of the world's most-respected data experts reveal the reality of a big data world and outline clear and actionable steps that will equip the reader with the tools needed for this next phase of human evolution.

Specifications

Aantal pagina's
242
Auteur
Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, Kenneth Cukier
Breedte (mm)
130
Gewicht (g)
177
Hoogte (mm)
17
Lengte (mm)
198
NUR-code
780
Ondertitel
A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work and Think
Taal
en
Uitgever
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Uitvoering
Paperback
Verschijningsjaar
2013
ISBN
9781848547926

Item number: 9781848547926