They've Got Your Number: Data, Digits and Destiny - How the Numerati are Changing Our Lives

Informationen zum Autor Stephen Baker began covering technology for BusinessWeek as Paris-based European correspondent 1998. He moved to New York in 2002 as acting senior editor for info tech, and is now a senior writer. He is a leader in new media at BusinessWeek and coauthor of Blogspotting.net, a blog featured as one of the 50 blogs to watch by The New York Times . Zusammenfassung Much in the same way as neuroscientists are mapping our brains, mathematicians are mapping our behaviour - what we do, who we are, how we work, chat, play and shop - everything that makes us individuals.

Product details

• Authors: Stephen Baker
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 05.11.2009
• EAN: 9780099507024
• ISBN: 978-0-09-950702-4
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 16 mm
• Series: Vintage Paperbacks; Vintage Paperbacks
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Society; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Labour, economic and industrial sociology; Gesellschaft (soziologisch), Datenschutz (persönl. Daten), MATHEMATICS / Mathematical Analysis, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Statistics, 21st Century, Impact of science and technology on society, Early 21st century c 2000 to c 2050, freakonomics; technology; data; the long tail