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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2015-11-01
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Series: | Big Data & Society |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1177/2053951715608877 |