Part 1: What is it? Where did it come from?. What is data? And what makes it big? Death and taxes. And babies Thinking machines -- Part 2: What has big data ever done for us?. Big business Big science Big society Data-driven democracy -- Part 3: Big ideas?. Big Brother Who do we think you are? Are y
Big data : does size matter?
โ Scribed by Harkness, Timandra, author
- Publisher
- London, UK ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Sigma
- Year
- 2016
- Tongue
- English
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Synopsis
304 pages : 23 cm
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