Uncharted : big data as a lens on human culture / Erez Aiden and Jean-Baptiste Michel.
By: Aiden, Erez [author.]
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Contributor(s): Michel, Jean-Baptiste.
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TextPublisher: New York, NY : Riverhead Books, 2013Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.Description: 280 p. : b&w ill. ; 22 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781594487453 (hardback); 1594487456 (hardback).Subject(s): Big data -- Social aspects | Internet -- Social aspects | CultureDDC classification: 302.23/1 Summary: Our society has gone from writing snippets of information by hand to generating a vast flood of 1s and 0s that record almost every aspect of our lives: who we know, what we do, where we go, what we buy, and who we love. This year, the world will generate 5 zettabytes of data. (That's a five with twenty-one zeros after it.) Big data is revolutionizing the sciences, transforming the humanities, and renegotiating the boundary between industry and the ivory tower. What is emerging is a new way of understanding our world, our past, and possibly, our future.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Our society has gone from writing snippets of information by hand to generating a vast flood of 1s and 0s that record almost every aspect of our lives: who we know, what we do, where we go, what we buy, and who we love. This year, the world will generate 5 zettabytes of data. (That's a five with twenty-one zeros after it.) Big data is revolutionizing the sciences, transforming the humanities, and renegotiating the boundary between industry and the ivory tower. What is emerging is a new way of understanding our world, our past, and possibly, our future.
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