Uncharted: Big Data as a Lens on Human Culture (repost)
Uncharted: Big Data as a Lens on Human Culture By Erez Aiden, Jean-Baptiste Michel
2013 | 280 Pages | ISBN: 1594487456 | EPUB | 5 MB
2013 | 280 Pages | ISBN: 1594487456 | EPUB | 5 MB
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.