"raw Data" Is an Oxymoron

Bys: Lisa Gitelman, Daniel Rosenberg, Kevin R. Brine, et al.

Episodes in the history of data, from early modern math problems to today's inescapable "dataveillance," that demonstrate the dependence of data on culture.

We live in the era of Big Data, with storage and transmission capacity measured not just in terabytes but in petabytes (where peta- denotes a quadrillion, or a thousand trillion). Data collection is constant and even insidious, with every click and every "like" stored somewhere...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262518287
• ISBN13: 9780262518284
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher