Big Data and reality

DNA sequencers, Twitter, MRIs, Facebook, particle accelerators, Google Books, radio telescopes, Tumblr: what do these things have in common? According to the evangelists of “data science,” all of these are instruments for observing reality at unprecedentedly large scales and fine granularities. This...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ryan Shaw
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2015-11-01
Series:Big Data & Society
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/2053951715608877