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题名/责任者:

"Raw data" is an oxymoron / edited by Lisa Gitelman.

出版发行项:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, 2013.

ISBN:

9780262518284 (pbk.)

ISBN:

0262518287 (pbk.)

载体形态项:

vi, 182 pages, [10] pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm.

丛编说明:

Infrastructures series

附加个人名称:

Gitelman, Lisa, editor of compilation.

论题主题:

Information theory.

论题主题:

Databases.

论题主题:

Data transmission systems.

论题主题:

Data warehousing.

中图法分类号:

G20

书目附注:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

摘要附注:

We live in the era of Big Data, with storage and transmission capacity measured not just in terabytes but in petabytes (where peta- denotes a quadrillion, or a thousand trillion). Data collection is constant and even insidious, with every click and every "like" stored somewhere for something. This book reminds us that data is anything but "raw," that we shouldn't think of data as a natural resource but as a cultural one that needs to be generated, protected, and interpreted. The book's essays describe eight episodes in the history of data from the predigital to the digital. Together they address such issues as the ways that different kinds of data and different domains of inquiry are mutually defining; how data are variously "cooked" in the processes of their collection and use; and conflicts over what can -- or can't -- be "reduced" to data. Contributors discuss the intellectual history of data as a concept; describe early financial modeling and some unusual sources for astronomical data; discover the prehistory of the database in newspaper clippings and index cards; and consider contemporary "dataveillance" of our online habits as well as the complexity of scientific data curation.

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