Big data : a very short introduction / Dawn E. Holmes.

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"Since long before computers were even thought of, data has been collected and organized by diverse cultures across the world. Once access to the Internet became a reality for large swathes of the world's population, the amount of data generated each day became huge, and continues to grow exponentia...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Very short introductions ; 539.
Main Author: Holmes, Dawn E. (Statistician) (Author)
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Very short introductions ; 539.
Subjects:
Big data.
Data mining.
Computers and IT.
Physical Description:xvi, 125 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • The data explosion
  • Why is big data special?
  • Storing big data
  • Big data analytics
  • Big data and medicine
  • Big data, big business
  • Big data security and the Snowden case
  • Big data and society
  • Byte size chart
  • ASCII table for lower case letters.