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An irreverent, provocative, and visually fascinating look at what our online lives reveal about who we really are--and how this deluge of data will transform the science of human behavior. Big Data is used to spy on us, hire and fire us, and sell us things we don't need. In Dataclysm, Christian Rudder puts this flood of information to an entirely different use: understanding human nature. Drawing on terabytes of data from Twitter, Facebook, Reddit,...
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We live in the age of the algorithm. Increasingly, the decisions that affect our lives -- where we go to school, whether we get a car loan, how much we pay for health insurance -- are being made not by humans, but by mathematical models. In theory, this should lead to greater fairness: Everyone is judged according to the same rules, and bias is eliminated. But as Cathy O'Neil reveals in this book, the opposite is true. The models being used today...
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Oxford University Press
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[2016]
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English
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Russell Walker investigates the use of big data to stimulate innovations in operational effectiveness and business growth. Using case studies of Apple, Netflix, Google, LinkedIn, Zillow, Amazon, and other leaders in the use of big data, Walker explores how digital platforms such as mobile apps and social networks are changing the nature of customer interactions and the way big data is created and used by companies. Companies looking to develop a big...
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Kanopy Streaming
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2014.
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English
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Hackers around the globe are relentless in their attempts to access networks and devices in order to steal information or plant malicious programs. IT security professionals are in a constant tug-of-war with these actors defending enterprise systems and data from unauthorized access and cyber-attack. In this report Jack Danahy, Director of Advanced Security at IBM, discusses the current enterprise security landscape and offers advice and best practices...
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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IT professionals around the globe are now being challenged to manage, organize and analyze these vast data sets strategically; to identify new business trends, conduct highly-advanced product research and even predict threats to enterprise security. This report will introduce and explore the world of "Big Data" and offer advice and best practices that will help professionals understand and make the most of this incredible organizational resource....
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MCD, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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2021.
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To live in data in the twenty-first century is to be incessantly extracted from, classified and categorized, statisti-fied, sold, and surveilled. Data--our data--is mined and processed for profit, power, and political gain. In Living in Data, Thorp asks a crucial question of our time: How do we stop passively inhabiting data, and instead become active citizens of it? Threading a data story through hippo attacks, glaciers, and school gymnasiums, around...
9) Big data, data mining, and machine learning: value creation for business leaders and practitioners
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Wiley
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[2014]
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English
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"An expert guide to high performance computing architectures and how they relate to analytics and data miningWith the exponential growth of data comes an ever-increasing need to process and analyze so-called Big Data. High Performance Data Mining and Big Data Analytics provides a comprehensive view of the recent trend toward high performance computing architectures and its natural connection to analytics and data mining. You'll find coverage of topics...
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"The moment you check your phone in the morning you are giving away data. Before you've even switched off your alarm, a whole host of organizations have been alerted to when you woke up, where you slept, and with whom. As you check the weather, scroll through your 'suggested friends' on Facebook, you continually compromise your privacy. Without your permission, or even your awareness, tech companies are harvesting your information, your location,...
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O'Reilly
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2015.
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English
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"In this practical book, four Cloudera data scientists present a set of self-contained patterns for performing large-scale data analysis with Spark. The authors bring Spark, statistical methods, and real-world data sets together to teach you how to approach analytics problems by example. You'll start with an introduction to Spark and its ecosystem, and then dive into patterns that apply common techniques-classification, collaborative filtering, and...
12) Learning Spark
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O'Reilly
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[2015]
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English
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This book introduces Apache Spark, the open source cluster computing system that makes data analytics fast to write and fast to run. You'll learn how to express parallel jobs with just a few lines of code, and cover applications from simple batch jobs to stream processing and machine learning.--
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John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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"A compilation of the key data science, machine learning, and deep learning programming languages: Python and R. It helps you decide which programming languages are best for specific data science needs. It also gives you the guidelines to build your own projects to solve problems in real time"--
15) Code 6: a novel
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Aspiring playwright, Kate Gamble, is struggling to launch a script she's been secretly researching her entire life, mostly at the family dinner table. Her father is Christian Gamble, CEO of Buck Technologies, a private data integration company whose clients include the CIA and virtually every counter-terrorism organization in the Western World. Kate's father adores her, and a play about the dark side of Big Data would be the ultimate betrayal in his...
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"Shoshana Zuboff, named "the true prophet of the information age" by the Financial Times, has always been ahead of her time. Her seminal book In the Age of the Smart Machine foresaw the consequences of a then-unfolding era of computer technology. Now, three decades later she asks why the once-celebrated miracle of digital is turning into a nightmare. Zuboff tackles the social, political, business, personal, and technological meaning of "surveillance...
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Data is fundamental to the modern world. From economic development to health care to education and public policy, we rely on numbers to allocate resources and make crucial decisions. But because so much data fails to take into account gender, because it treats men as the default and women as atypical, bias and discrimination are baked into our systems. And women pay tremendous costs for this bias, in time, money, and often with their lives. Celebrated...
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Hachette Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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AI is now being used to decide who has access to an education, who gets hired, who gets fired, and who receives a promotion. Drawing on exclusive information from whistleblowers, internal documents, and real-world tests, Schellmann discovers that many of the algorithms making high-stakes decisions are biased, racist, and do more harm than good. Algorithms are on the brink of dominating our lives and threaten our human future-if we don't fight back....
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