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Big Data Now: Current Perspectives from O'Reilly Radar

This collection gathers the year's best pieces on data from O'Reilly Radar, beginning with a 2010 essay that asks what data science actually is. Roughly a year later, the editors look back over the material and group it under a few main headings.

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The first is data issues: privacy, the rise of data-driven industries, and the ongoing argument over the term data science itself. The second looks at how data gets turned into products and processes, which can come from startups, large companies, newsrooms, schools or research labs. The third covers the tools and techniques that power the field, since the methods used matter as much as the goals. The last section turns to the business side, examining how organizations find, organize and analyse information so they can compete.

Audience
adult
Length
short · 137 pages

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