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A revelatory exploration of the hottest trend in technology and the dramatic impact it will have on the economy, science, and society at large Which paint color is most likely to tell you that a used car is in good shape? How can officials identify the most dangerous New York City manholes before they explode? And how did Google searches predict the spread of the H1N1 flu outbreak? The key to answering these questions, and many more, is big data. Big data refers to our burgeoning ability to crunch vast collections of information, analyze it instantly, and draw sometimes profoundly surprising conclusions from it. This emerging science can translate myriad phenomena--from the price of airline tickets to the text of millions of books--into searchable form, and uses our increasing computing power to unearth epiphanies that we never could have seen before. A revolution on par with the Internet or perhaps even the printing press, big data will change the way we think about business, health, politics, education, and innovation in the years to come. It also poses fresh threats, from the inevitable end of privacy as we know it to the prospect of being penalized for things we haven't even done yet, based on big data's ability to predict our future behavior. In this brilliantly clear, often surprising work, two leading experts explain what big data is, how it will change our lives, and what we can do to protect ourselves from its hazards. Big Data is the first big book about the next big thing. www.big-data-book.com

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Big Data will be the defining text in the discussion for some time to come. -- Forbes A fascinating--and sometimes alarming--survey of big data's growing effect on just about everything: business, government, science and medicine, privacy, and even on the way we think. -- New York Times An optimistic and practical look at the Big Data revolution--just the thing to get your head around the big changes already underway and the bigger changes to come. -- Cory Doctorow, New York Times bestselling author Brilliant...an elegant and readable primer. -- New Scientist No other book offers such an accessible and balanced tour of the many benefits and downsides of our continuing infatuation with data. -- Wall Street Journal The book teems with great insights on the new ways of harnessing information and offers a convincing vision of the future. It is essential reading for anyone who uses--or is affected by--big data. -- Jeff Jonas, IBM Fellow and Chief Scientist, IBM Entity Analytics

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KENNETH CUKIER is the Data Editor of the Economist and co-author of Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think. His writings on business and economics have appeared in Foreign Affairs, the New York Times, the Financial Times, and elsewhere. VIKTOR MAYER-SCH�NBERGER is Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation at the Oxford Internet Institute, Oxford University. The co-author of Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We, Live, Work, and Think, he has published over a hundred articles and eight other books, including Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age. He is on the advisory boards of corporations and organizations around the world, including Microsoft and the World Economic Forum.

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