Big data : an art of decision making /
"Manipulating and processing masses of digital data is never a purely technical activity. It requires an interpretative and exploratory outlook - already well known in the social sciences and the humanities - to convey intelligible results from data analysis algorithms and create new knowledge....
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London, UK : Hoboken, NJ, USA :
ISTE Ltd. ; Wiley,
2020.
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| Series: | Intellectual technologies set ;
v. 7. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "Manipulating and processing masses of digital data is never a purely technical activity. It requires an interpretative and exploratory outlook - already well known in the social sciences and the humanities - to convey intelligible results from data analysis algorithms and create new knowledge. Big Data is based on an inquiry of several years within Proxem, a software publisher specializing in big data processing. The book examines how data scientists explore, interpret and visualize our digital traces to make sense of them, and to produce new knowledge. Grounded in epistemology and science and technology studies, Big Data offers a reflection on data in general, and on how they help us to better understand reality and decide on our daily actions."--Page 4 of cover |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 259 pages : : illustrations.) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-256) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781119777014 (electronic bk.) 1119777011 (electronic bk.) |