About this nonfiction
Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think by Viktor Mayer-Schonberger & Viktor Kenneth Cukier is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
A revelatory exploration of the hottest trend in technology and the dramatic impact it will have on the economy, science, and society at large.Which paint color is most likely to tell you that a used car is in good shape? How can officials identify the most dangerous New York City manholes before they explode? And how did Google searches predict the spread of the H1N1 flu outbreak?The key to answering these questions, and many more, is big data. “Big data” refers to our burgeoning ability to crunch vast collections of information, analyze it instantly, and draw sometimes profoundly surprising conclusions from it. This emerging science can translate myriad phenomena—from the price of airline tickets to the text of millions of books—into searchable form, and uses our increasing computing power to unearth epiphanies that we never could have seen before. A revolution on par with the Internet or perhaps even the printing press, big data will change the way we think about business, health, politics, education, and innovation in the years to come. It also poses fresh threats, from the inevitable end of privacy as we know it to the prospect of being penalized for things we haven’t even don
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Viktor Mayer-Schonberger & Viktor Kenneth Cukier
- Publisher
- chenjin5.com 万千书友聚集地
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Engineering, Business, Industries
- Rating
- 3.7 / 5 (149 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14