Throughout Big Data’s highly enjoyable pages, the spread and range of material is highly impressive…
It's hard to avoid 'big data' - but we've lived in an information age for decades. What's changed?
An easy to absorb tour of this transformative technology, finding out how big data enables Netflix to forecast a hit, CERN to find the Higgs boson and medics to discover if red wine really is good for you.
Less positively, we explore how companies are using big data to benefit from smart meters, use advertising that spies on you, and develop the gig economy, where workers are managed at the whim of an algorithm.
Is the Brexit vote successful big data politics or the end of democracy? Why do airlines overbook, and why do banks get it wrong so often? With big data unquestionably here to stay, a bright future beckons if we can embrace its good side while guarding against its bad. This book reveals how.
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A quick but fascinating introduction to the big world of big data. Tushna Commissariat, Physics World
As always, Clegg writes with an easy clarity that draws us in - no technical expertise required to understand his exploration of this essential subject - and throughout Big Data’s highly enjoyable pages, the spread and range of material is highly impressive – dizzying in fact. I personally found entirely new perspectives on the subject that will keep me pondering for quite some time.
I should add that, if I were still a statistics lecturer at Oxford, I would recommend the book to my students as bedside reading. Peet Morris - Popular Science book review site
Acclaimed science writer Brian Clegg - a habitual early adopter of new technology (and the owner of the second-ever copy of Windows in the UK) - brings big data to life. Groove Book Review (NZ)
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