Reality mining : using big data to engineer a better world /

In this book, the authors explore the positive potential of big data, showing the ways in which the analysis of big data ("reality mining") can be used to improve human systems as varied as political polling and disease tracking, while considering user privacy. They describe reality mining...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Eagle, Nathan (Autor), Greene, Kate, 1979- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2014]
Temas:
Data mining.
Big data.
Computer networks > Social aspects.
Information science > Social aspects.
Information science > Statistical methods.
Data Mining
Exploration de données (Informatique)
Données volumineuses.
Réseaux d'ordinateurs > Aspect social.
Sciences de l'information > Aspect social.
COMPUTERS > General.
COMPUTERS > Database Management > Data Mining.
Big data
Computer networks > Social aspects
Data mining
Information science > Social aspects
Information science > Statistical methods
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Part 1: Individual (One Person):
  • Mobile phones, sensors, and lifelogging: collecting data from individuals while considering privacy
  • Using personal data in a privacy-sensitive way to make a person's life easier and healthier
  • Part 2: Neighborhood And The Organization (10 to 1,000 People):
  • Gathering data from small heterogeneous groups
  • Engineering and policy: building more efficient businesses, enabling hyperlocal politics, life queries, and opportunity searches
  • Part 3: City (1,000 to 1,000,000 people):
  • Traffic data, crime stats, and closed-circuit cameras: accumulating urban analytics
  • Engineering and policy: optimizing resource allocation
  • Part 4: Nation (1 Million to 100 Million People)
  • Taking the pulse of a nation: census, mobile phones, and internet giants
  • Engineering and policy: addressing national sentiment, economic deficits, and disasters
  • Part 5: Reality Mining The World's Data (100 Million to 7 Billion People):
  • Gathering the world's data: global census, international travel and commerce, and planetary-scale communication:
  • Engineering a safer and healthier world
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Index.

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