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题名:
"Raw data" is an oxymoron / / ,
出版发行:
出版地: Cambridge, Massachusetts : 出版社: The MIT Press, 出版日期: c2013.
载体形态:
vi, 182 pages, [10] pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm.
内容提要:
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 for something. This book reminds us that data is anything but "raw," that we shouldn't think of data as a natural resource but as a cultural one that needs to be generated, protected, and interpreted. The book's essays describe eight episodes in the history of data from the predigital to the digital. Together they address such issues as the ways that differe