Dark Data

Author : David J. Hand
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691234469
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dark Data written by David J. Hand and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-02-15 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Data describe and represent the world. However, no matter how big they may be, data sets don't - indeed cannot - capture everything. Data are measurements - and, as such, they represent only what has been measured. They don't necessarily capture all the information that is relevant to the questions we may want to ask. If we do not take into account what may be missing/unknown in the data we have, we may find ourselves unwittingly asking questions that our data cannot actually address, come to mistaken conclusions, and make disastrous decisions. In this book, David Hand looks at the ubiquitous phenomenon of "missing data." He calls this "dark data" (making a comparison to "dark matter" - i.e., matter in the universe that we know is there, but which is invisible to direct measurement). He reveals how we can detect when data is missing, the types of settings in which missing data are likely to be found, and what to do about it. It can arise for many reasons, which themselves may not be obvious - for example, asymmetric information in wars; time delays in financial trading; dropouts in clinical trials; deliberate selection to enhance apparent performance in hospitals, policing, and schools; etc. What becomes clear is that measuring and collecting more and more data (big data) will not necessarily lead us to better understanding or to better decisions. We need to be vigilant to what is missing or unknown in our data, so that we can try to control for it. How do we do that? We can be alert to the causes of dark data, design better data-collection strategies that sidestep some of these causes - and, we can ask better questions of our data, which will lead us to deeper insights and better decisions"--

Author : Viktor Mayer-Schönberger
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0544002695
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Big Data written by Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2013 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A exploration of the latest trend in technology and the impact it will have on the economy, science, and society at large.

Author : Bryan P. Bergeron
Publisher : Prentice Hall PTR
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dark Ages II written by Bryan P. Bergeron and published by Prentice Hall PTR. This book was released on 2002 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Data is in danger. Discover why--and what can be done about it. Why today's approaches to data storage are courting disaster--for individuals, businesses, and civilization. What to do about it: specific, realistic solutions users can implement now.

Author : Mohiuddin Ahmed
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 0429820917
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Data Analytics written by Mohiuddin Ahmed and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-09-21 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Large data sets arriving at every increasing speeds require a new set of efficient data analysis techniques. Data analytics are becoming an essential component for every organization and technologies such as health care, financial trading, Internet of Things, Smart Cities or Cyber Physical Systems. However, these diverse application domains give rise to new research challenges. In this context, the book provides a broad picture on the concepts, techniques, applications, and open research directions in this area. In addition, it serves as a single source of reference for acquiring the knowledge on emerging Big Data Analytics technologies.

Author : James Bridle
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1786635488
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Dark Age written by James Bridle and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2019-05-21 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “New Dark Age is among the most unsettling and illuminating books I’ve read about the Internet, which is to say that it is among the most unsettling and illuminating books I’ve read about contemporary life.” – New Yorker As the world around us increases in technological complexity, our understanding of it diminishes. Underlying this trend is a single idea: the belief that our existence is understandable through computation, and more data is enough to help us build a better world. In reality, we are lost in a sea of information, increasingly divided by fundamentalism, simplistic narratives, conspiracy theories, and post-factual politics. Meanwhile, those in power use our lack of understanding to further their own interests. Despite the apparent accessibility of information, we’re living in a new Dark Age. From rogue financial systems to shopping algorithms, from artificial intelligence to state secrecy, we no longer understand how our world is governed or presented to us. The media is filled with unverifiable speculation, much of it generated by anonymous software, while companies dominate their employees through surveillance and the threat of automation. In his brilliant new work, leading artist and writer James Bridle surveys the history of art, technology, and information systems, and reveals the dark clouds that gather over our dreams of the digital sublime.

Author : Sean F. Everton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107022592
Total Pages : 489 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Disrupting Dark Networks written by Sean F. Everton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sean F. Everton focuses on how social network analysis can be used to craft strategies to track, destabilize, and disrupt covert, illegal networks. He illustrates these methods through worked examples from four different social network analysis software packages (UCINET, NetDraw, Pajek, and ORA), using standard network data sets as well as data from an actual terrorist network to serve as a running example throughout the book.

Author : David J. Hand
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374175349
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Improbability Principle written by David J. Hand and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-02-11 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A well-known statistician presents his theory that extraordinary and rare events are actually commonplace and cites stories of two-time lottery winners and other bizarre coincidences to support his theory that unlikely events statistically must happen. 50,000 first printing.

Author : Bruce Schneier
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393244822
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World written by Bruce Schneier and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2015-03-02 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Bruce Schneier’s amazing book is the best overview of privacy and security ever written.”—Clay Shirky “Bruce Schneier’s amazing book is the best overview of privacy and security ever written.”—Clay Shirky Your cell phone provider tracks your location and knows who’s with you. Your online and in-store purchasing patterns are recorded, and reveal if you're unemployed, sick, or pregnant. Your e-mails and texts expose your intimate and casual friends. Google knows what you’re thinking because it saves your private searches. Facebook can determine your sexual orientation without you ever mentioning it. The powers that surveil us do more than simply store this information. Corporations use surveillance to manipulate not only the news articles and advertisements we each see, but also the prices we’re offered. Governments use surveillance to discriminate, censor, chill free speech, and put people in danger worldwide. And both sides share this information with each other or, even worse, lose it to cybercriminals in huge data breaches. Much of this is voluntary: we cooperate with corporate surveillance because it promises us convenience, and we submit to government surveillance because it promises us protection. The result is a mass surveillance society of our own making. But have we given up more than we’ve gained? In Data and Goliath, security expert Bruce Schneier offers another path, one that values both security and privacy. He brings his bestseller up-to-date with a new preface covering the latest developments, and then shows us exactly what we can do to reform government surveillance programs, shake up surveillance-based business models, and protect our individual privacy. You'll never look at your phone, your computer, your credit cards, or even your car in the same way again.

Author : Krzysztof Jajuga
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030751902
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Data Analysis and Classification written by Krzysztof Jajuga and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-06-28 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume gathers peer-reviewed contributions that address a wide range of recent developments in the methodology and applications of data analysis and classification tools in micro and macroeconomic problems. The papers were originally presented at the 29th Conference of the Section on Classification and Data Analysis of the Polish Statistical Association, SKAD 2020, held in Sopot, Poland, September 7–9, 2020. Providing a balance between methodological contributions and empirical papers, the book is divided into five parts focusing on methodology, finance, economics, social issues and applications dealing with COVID-19 data. It is aimed at a wide audience, including researchers at universities and research institutions, graduate and doctoral students, practitioners, data scientists and employees in public statistical institutions.

Author : Emiliano Ippoliti
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 331949872X
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Methods and Finance written by Emiliano Ippoliti and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-12-23 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book offers an interdisciplinary perspective on finance, with a special focus on stock markets. It presents new methodologies for analyzing stock markets’ behavior and discusses theories and methods of finance from different angles, such as the mathematical, physical and philosophical ones. The book, which aims at philosophers and economists alike, represents a rare yet important attempt to unify the externalist with the internalist conceptions of finance.