Big data, big questions

✍ Scribed by Pflugfelder, Ehren Helmut

• Book ID: 126768563
• Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery
• Year: 2013
• Weight: 183 KB
• Volume: 1
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 2166-1200
• DOI: 10.1145/2524248.2524253

✦ Synopsis

One significant concern I have for the future of technical communication, a concern I often share with my students, involves the impact of "big data." Though the term is frequently used with a sneer, or at least a slightly unsettled laugh, the methods for retrieving information from large data sets are improving as I write this. One significant question the field faces is: "what new relationships will develop and what new work will technical communicators be responsible for in emergent big data projects, in coming years?"