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 done yet, based on big data’s ability to predict our future behavior. In this brilliantly clear, often surprising work, two leading experts explain what big data is, how it will change our lives, and what we can do to protect ourselves from its hazards. Big Data is the first big book about the next big thing.
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Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think

Cukier, Kenneth

Mayer-Schönberger, Viktor

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Financial Times Business Book of the Year Finalist “Illuminating and very timely . . . a fascinating — and sometimes alarming — survey of big data’s growing effect on just about everything: business, government, science and medicine, privacy, and even on the way we think.” —New York Times It seems like “big data” is in the news every day, as we read the latest examples of how powerful algorithms are teasing out the hidden connections between seemingly unrelated things. Whether it is used by the NSA to fight terrorism or by online retailers to predict customers’ buying patterns, big data is a revolution occurring around us, in the process of forever changing economics, science, culture, and the very way we think. But it also poses new threats, from the end of privacy as we know it to the prospect of being penalized for things we haven’t even done yet, based on big data’s ability to predict our future behavior. What we have already seen is just the tip of the iceberg. Big Data is the first major book about this earthshaking subject, with two leading experts explaining what big data is, how it will change our lives, and what we can do to protect ourselves from its hazards. “An optimistic and practical look at the Big Data revolution — just the thing to get your head around the big changes already underway and the bigger changes to come.” —Cory Doctorow, boingboing.com

Business & Money

Industries

Harper Business

Framers: Human Advantage in an Age of Technology and Turmoil

"Cukier and his co-authors have a more ambitious project than Kahneman and Harari. They don't want to just point out how powerfully we are influenced by our perspectives and prejudices--our frames. They want to show us that these frames are tools, and that we can optimise their use." --Forbes From pandemics to populism, AI to ISIS, wealth inequity to climate change, humanity faces unprecedented challenges that threaten our very existence.&nbsp;The essential tool that will enable humanity to find the best way foward is defined in Framers by internationally renowned authors Kenneth Cukier, Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, and Francis de Véricourt.&nbsp; &nbsp; To frame is to make a mental model that enables us to make sense of new situations. Frames guide the decisions we make and the results we attain. People have long focused on traits like memory and reasoning, leaving framing all but ignored. But with computers becoming better at some of those cognitive tasks, framing stands out as a critical function--and only humans can do it. This book is the first guide to mastering this human ability. &nbsp; Illustrating their case with compelling examples and the latest research, authors Cukier, Mayer-Schönberger, and de Véricourt examine: &nbsp; ·&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Why advice to "think outside the box" is useless ·&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; How Spotify beat Apple by reframing music as an experience ·&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; How the #MeToo twitter hashtag reframed the perception of sexual assault ·&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;The disaster of framing Covid-19 as equivalent to seasonal flu, and how framing it akin to SARS delivered New Zealand from the pandemic &nbsp; Framers shows how framing is not just a way to improve how we make decisions in the era of algorithms--but why it will be a matter of survival for humanity in a time of societal upheaval and machine prosperity.

de Véricourt, Francis

Economics

Dutton

'Wonderfully stimulating... will teach you to see around corners' -- Tim Harford 
'A paean to cognitive agility and the elasticity of the imagination' -- The Economist 
'A tightly written prescription for smart thinking' -- Financial Times\nThe power of mental models to make better decisions\nWe're always told that humans make bad decisions and that more data is better. But this is backwards: people are actually good at decisions because we use mental models and can envision new realities outside of data. Great outcomes don't depend so much on the final moment of choosing but on generating better alternatives to choose between. That's framing. It's a cognitive muscle we can strengthen to improve our lives, work and future -- to meet our moment of economic upheaval, social tensions and existential threats. Framers shows how.

Mayer-Schoenberger, Viktor

Vericourt, Francis de

Management & Leadership

WH Allen

Big data

Humor & Entertainment

Television

ROBERT LAFFONT

Lernen mit Big Data: Die Zukunft der Bildung

Redline

Big Data: Die Revolution, die unser Leben verändern wird

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Hardware & DIY

Big data: La revolución de los datos masivos

Computer Science

Turner

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