Big Data, Little Data, No Data
Scholarship in the Networked World
$86.68
- Paperback
416 pages
- Release Date
3 February 2017
Summary
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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262529914 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262529912 |
| Author: | Christine L. Borgman |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 416 |
| Release Date: | 3 February 2017 |
| Weight: | 522g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 17mm |
| Series: | The MIT Press |
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Critics Review
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 to status, practices and procedures concerning any type of data in different research field areas.
—LeonardoBig Data, Little Data, No Data is no mere bibliography or literature review, nor is it a how-to-do-it manual on data curation. It is an extended thought-piece, firmly grounded in the author’s extensive experience with all-things data, and her knowledge of the work and writings of hundreds of other scholars over time.
—Journal of the Association for Information Science and TechnologyAbout The Author
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.
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