Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think

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A revelatory exploration of the freshest trend in technology and the dramatic have an effect on it’ll 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 future years It also poses fresh threats from the inevitable end of privacy as we are aware of 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 regularly surprising work two leading experts give an explanation for what big data is how it’ll change our lives and what we will do to offer protection to ourselves from its hazards Big Data is the first big book about the next big thing www big data book com 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 kind of feels 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 t

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