Reality Mining

In Reality Mining, Nathan Eagle and Kate Greene cut through the hype and the headlines to 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. Tehy describe Reality Mining at five different levels: the individual, the neighborhood and organization, the city, the nation, and the world. For each level, they first offer a nontechnical explanation of data collection methods and then describe applications and systems that have been or could be built.

About the author

Nathan Eagle, one of the ¿50 people who will change the world¿ on the 2012 Wired Smart List, is the cofounder and CEO of Jana, a company that helps global brands reach customers in emerging markets via mobile airtime. He holds faculty positions at Harvard and Northeastern Universities. Kate Greene is a freelance science and technology journalist based in San Francisco whose work has appeared in The Economist, Discover, and U.S News & World Report, among other publications.

Summary

A look at how Big Data can be put to positive use, from helping users break bad habits to tracking the global spread of disease.

Product details

• Authors: Nathan Eagle, Nathan Greene Eagle, Kate Greene, Nathan Eagle & Kate Greene
• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.09.2014
• EAN: 9780262027687
• ISBN: 978-0-262-02768-7
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 145 mm x 212 mm x 22 mm
• Series: Reality Mining; The MIT Press; The MIT Press
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > Data communication, networks; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Communication science