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The Data Revolution - 2nd Revised Edition - A Critical Analysis of Big Data, Open Data and Data Infrastructures

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Our world is becoming ever more data-driven, transforming how business is conducted, governance enacted, and knowledge produced. Yet, the nature of data and the scope and implications of the changes taking place are not always clear. The Data Revolution is a must read for anyone interested in why data have become so important in the contemporary era.Thoroughly updated, including ten new chapters, the book provides an accessible and comprehensive: introduction to thinking conceptually about the nature of data and the field of critical data studies overview of big data, open data and data infrastructures analysis of the utility and value of big and open data for research, business, government and civil society assessment of the concerns and risks in a data-driven world and how to prevent and mitigate them.

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Rob Kitchin is a Professor in Maynooth University Social Sciences Institute and Department of Geography. He was a European Research Council Advanced Investigator on the Programmable City project (2013-2018) and a principal investigator on the Building City Dashboards project (2016-2020) and for the Digital Repository of Ireland (2009-2017). He is the (co)author or (co)editor of 31 other academic books, and (co)author of over 200 articles and book chapters. He has been an editor of Dialogues in Human Geography, Progress in Human Geography and Social and Cultural Geography, and was the co-Editor-in-Chief of the International Encyclopedia of Human Geography. He was the 2013 recipient of the Royal Irish Academy's Gold Medal for the Social Sciences.

Product details

Authors Rob Kitchin, Kitchin Rob
Assisted by Rob Kitchin (Editor)
Publisher Sage Publications Ltd
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 31.01.2022
 
EAN 9781529733754
ISBN 978-1-5297-3375-4
No. of pages 376
Dimensions 170 mm x 240 mm x 20 mm
Subjects Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs
Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories

Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Research, Social research and statistics, For higher / tertiary / university education, Textbook, coursework

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