Big Data Shocks: An Introduction to Big Data for Librarians and Information Professionals

by Andrew Weiss

Book Overview

"Big data," as it has become known in business and information technology circles, has the potential to improve our knowledge about human behavior, and to help us gain insight into the ways in which we organize ourselves, our cultures, and our external and internal lives. Libraries stand at the center of the information world, both facilitating and contributing to this flood as well as helping to shape and channel it to specific purposes. But all...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1538103222
• ISBN13: 9781538103227
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"