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The human face of big data / created by Rick Smolan and Jennifer Erwitt.
Van Pelt Library QA76.9.D343 S6365 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smolan, Rick.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Big data--Social aspects.
- Big data.
- Data mining--Social aspects.
- Data mining.
- Big data--Pictorial works.
- Data mining--Pictorial works.
- Genre:
- Pictorial works.
- Illustrated works.
- Physical Description:
- 223 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps, charts ; 37 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Sausalito, Calif. : Against All Odds Productions, [2012]
- Summary:
- The authors invited more than 100 journalists worldwide to use photographs, charts and essays to explore the world of big data and its growing influence on our lives and society.
- Contents:
- Reflections in a digital mirror / essay by Juan Enriquez
- Our data, ourselves / essays by Kate Greene and A.J. Jacobs
- Dark data / essays by Marc Goodman and Susan Karlin
- Pulse of the planet / essay by Esther Dyson
- How crowdsourcing is changing science / essay by Gareth Cook
- A demograph of one / essay by Michael S. Malone
- The art of data / essay by Aaron Koblin
- Data driven / essay by Jonathan Harris.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1454908270
- 9781454908272
- OCLC:
- 809911403
- Publisher Number:
- 9781454908272
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