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Big Data, Little Data, No Data: Scholarship in the Networked World
Christine L. Borgman
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Description for Big Data, Little Data, No Data: Scholarship in the Networked World
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An examination of the uses of data within a changing knowledge infrastructure, offering analysis and case studies from the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Big Data is on the covers of Science, Nature, the Economist, and Wired magazines, on the front pages of the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times. But despite the media hyperbole, as Christine Borgman points out in this examination of data and scholarly research, having the right data is usually better than having more data; little data can be just as valuable as big data. In many cases, there ... Read more
An examination of the uses of data within a changing knowledge infrastructure, offering analysis and case studies from the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Big Data is on the covers of Science, Nature, the Economist, and Wired magazines, on the front pages of the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times. But despite the media hyperbole, as Christine Borgman points out in this examination of data and scholarly research, having the right data is usually better than having more data; little data can be just as valuable as big data. In many cases, there ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
MIT Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
557g
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass., United States
ISBN
9780262529914
SKU
V9780262529914
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About Christine L. Borgman
Christine L. Borgman is Professor and Presidential Chair in Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of From Gutenberg to the Global Information Infrastructure and Scholarship in the Digital Age (both winners of the Best Information Science Book award from ASIS&T), published by the MIT Press.
Reviews for Big Data, Little Data, No Data: Scholarship in the Networked World
This reading might be of enormous value to interdisciplinary scholars, seeking to test or adapt different data methods, but also for students, that need to get introduced to them. Without holding back, I would recommend this book, for its clarity, well-organised arguments and throughout approach as a university handbook in the area. It is more than enough to get known ... Read more