Big Data, Little Data, No Data: Scholarship in the Networked World

by Christine L. Borgman

Book Overview

An examination of the uses of data within a changing knowledge infrastructure, offering analysis and case studies from the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. "Big Data" is on the covers of Science, Nature , the Economist , and Wired magazines, on the front pages of the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times. But despite the media hyperbole, as Christine Borgman points out in this examination of data and scholarly research, having the right...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262028565
• ISBN13: 9780262028561
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher