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2) Data-ism: the revolution transforming decision making, consumer behavior, and almost everything else
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
By one estimate, 90 percent of all of the data in history was created in the last two years. In 2014, International Data Corporation calculated the data universe at 4.4 zettabytes, or 4.4 trillion gigabytes. That much information, in volume, could fill enough slender iPad Air tablets to create a stack two-thirds of the way to the moon. Now, that's Big Data.
Coal, iron ore, and oil were the key productive assets that fueled the Industrial Revolution....
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
You know less than you think you do - about what makes you healthy, what makes you rich, who you should date, where you should live. You know less than you think you do about how to raise your children, or, for that matter, whether you should have children in the first place. Seth Stephens-Davidowitz showed how big data is revolutionising the social sciences. He shows how big data can help us find answers to some of the most important questions we...
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Data is fundamental to the modern world. From economic development to health care to education and public policy, we rely on numbers to allocate resources and make crucial decisions. But because so much data fails to take into account gender, because it treats men as the default and women as atypical, bias and discrimination are baked into our systems. And women pay tremendous costs for this bias, in time, money, and often with their lives. Celebrated...
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