Big Data Is Not a Monolith

by Michael Mattioli

Perspectives on the varied challenges posed by big data for health, science, law, commerce, and politics.

Big data is ubiquitous but heterogeneous. Big data can be used to tally clicks and traffic on web pages, find patterns in stock trades, track consumer preferences, identify linguistic correlations in large corpuses of texts. This book examines big data not as an undifferentiated whole but contextually, investigating the varied challenges...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262529483
• ISBN13: 9780262529488
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.9" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher