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Digital Data Access.

For 200 years, industry mastered iron, fire, strength and energy. Today, electronics shapes our everyday objects, integrating chips: computers, phones, keys, games, household appliances, etc. Data, software and calculation frame the conduct of humankind, and everything is translated into data. The f...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Chamoux, Jean-Pierre
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Somerset : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2018.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Half-Title Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Note to Reader; Preface: Understanding Digital Society; Introduction: Big Data Challenges; PART 1: What's New and Why?; Introduction to Part 1; 1. Digital Omnipresence: Its Causes and Consequences; From analog to digital; Computerization, prior to the digital revolution; The Internet, a real breakthrough factor; Importance of competition; Highly regulated communication infrastructure and services; Changes in European markets; From crisis to American rebound; Telephone and Internet companies; Summary; Bibliography.
  • Appendix. The 2000 crisis: lessons and industrial consequences2. Mathematical Culture and Massive Data; The Turing machine, the inspiration for massive data?; Distinguishing the pure from the applied does not define the calculable; What does "calculable" mean?; The relationship of virtual to reality; A thinking style: the digital image of the world; From natural to mathematics; An ancient algorithm and its programming: gcd; Styles of mathematization; The incalculable, an absurd reasoning by Turing; Mathematics, algorithms and measures of complexity.
  • Representations of communities and massive dataConstraints of mathematization; Exploiting existing data; The notion of the invariant: perspective, vectorial, linear algebra and matrix representation; Graphs, their calculations and some algorithms; Conclusion; Bibliography; 3. From Sample to Big Data: Competing or Complementary Paradigms?; Sampling and big data: useful synergy; From the sample ... ; ... to Big Data; Homogeneous or massive data?; Going towards hybrid measures: concrete cases; Is this an ephemeral or sustainable phenomenon?; Advantages; An interesting brainstorming session.
  • Clear political guidelinesThe Internet of Things; How can data confidentiality be guaranteed?; An already significant regulatory framework; Information technology and freedom; What guidelines for the future?; Reflections of the French Conseil d'Etat; Culture and media: the Avignon Forum; The digital transformation of the economy; Protecting personal data; Encryption19; The vision of Tore Dalenius; Anonymization; Destruction or aggregation of data; Obscuring data; A new approach: differential confidentiality; How to conclude?; Bibliography.
  • 4. Researching Forms and Correlations: the Big Data ApproachDeconstruction and accumulation of data; Massive databases; Playing games with the devil?; A case study; The protection of privacy; Automatic processing; Conclusion; Bibliography; 5. Bitcoin: an Innovative System; Bitcoin and bitcoin: some key concepts; The Bitcoin system; The transactions register; Overview; Reliability and safety; Software changes; Fraud and control takeover; Evolution of Bitcoin and peer-to-peer payment; In summary; Bibliography; PART 2: Tactics and Strategies; Introduction to Part 2.