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Living in data : a citizen's guide to a better information future / Jer Thorp.
Van Pelt Library QA76.9.I52 T55 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thorp, Jer, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Information visualization.
- Information behavior.
- Statistics.
- Quantitative research.
- Big data--Social aspects.
- Big data.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 300 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : MCD, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021.
- Summary:
- "A provocative, eye-opening, example-laden exploration of our current and future relationship with data"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Living in data
- I data you, you data me (we all data together)
- Data's dark matter
- By canoe and caravan
- Drunk on Zima
- Number of grown sheep that were sheared
- Do/until
- A lossy kind of alchemy
- The rice show
- Paradox walnuts
- St. Silicon's Hospital and the map room
- Te Mana Raraunga
- An internet of what
- Here in dataland.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9780374189907
- 0374189900
- OCLC:
- 1230253751
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