TY - BOOK AU - Holmes,Dawn E. ED - Ohio Library and Information Network. TI - Big data: a very short introduction SN - 9780191824616 AV - QA76.9.B45 H66 2017 PY - 2017/// CY - [Oxford] PB - Oxford University Press KW - Big data KW - Data mining KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; The data explosion -- Why is big data special? -- Storing big data -- Big data analytics -- Big data and medicine -- Big data, big business -- Big data security and the Snowden case -- Big data and society -- Byte size chart -- ASCII table for lower case letters; Available to OhioLINK libraries; Specialized N2 - An unimaginably vast amount of data is now generated by our on-line lives and businesses. At the same time, our ability to store, manage, analyse, and exploit this data is becoming ever more sophisticated. This 'Very Short Introduction' maps out the technology, and also the range of possibilities, challenges, and ethical questions it raises UR - https://www.veryshortintroductions.com/view/10.1093/actrade/9780198779575.001.0001/actrade-9780198779575 UR - http://proxy.ohiolink.edu:9099/login?url=https://www.veryshortintroductions.com/view/10.1093/actrade/9780198779575.001.0001/actrade-9780198779575 ER -