Matters of Life and Data The Remarkable Journey of a Big Data Visionary Whose Work Impacted Millions (Including You)

Name: Matters of Life and Data
Author: Charles D Morgan

Auteur: Charles D Morgan

Taal: Engels

Afbeeldingen

Artikel vergelijken

Vergelijk met andere artikelen

Bekijk nu

Auteur: Charles D Morgan

Engels
Paperback
9781630474652
20 januari 2015
333 pagina's

Alle productspecificaties

Samenvatting

I didn't set out to become a collector of your and your neighbors' information. When I was growing up, nobody but egghead scientists talked about 'data.' It was the mechanical age, and I was a gadget geek, taking apart my cousin's toys and trying to put them back together again. I was especially crazy about cars and engines, and had it not been for a fateful encounter during college recruiting season, I might've lived my life as a race car mechanic instead of learning about computers at IBM. As it turned out, pursuing Big Data allowed me the resources to become a professional race car driver on the side, competing against the likes of Paul Newman, who makes appearances in these pages as well. Such are the wonders of this journey we're all on. Mine has taken me from the frontier of western Arkansas, where my ancestors owned a hardware store selling iron tools to westbound travelers, to the frontier of the digital age, where room-size computers have become eclipsed by the power of smart phones. And in a sense, the story you're about to read isn't so different from those of the colorful adventurers who stocked up their wagons at my family's hardware emporium and headed west to make their fortunes. Data mining is the new gold rush, and we were there at first strike, dragging with us all our human frailties and foibles. In this book's cast of characters you'll find ambition, arrogance, jealousy, pride, fear, recklessness, anger, lust, viciousness, greed, revenge, betrayal, and then some. It is a messy story. In the big picture, this could be called a narrative of America since World War II. But in the micro telling, think of it this way: The man who opened your lives to Big Data finally bares his own.

Productspecificaties

Inhoud

Taal: en
Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 20 januari 2015
Aantal pagina's: 333
Illustraties: Nee

Betrokkenen

Hoofdauteur: Charles D Morgan
Hoofduitgeverij: Morgan James Publishing llc

Overige kenmerken

Extra groot lettertype: Nee
Studieboek: Nee
Verpakking breedte: 159 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 25 mm
Verpakking lengte: 241 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 499 g

EAN

EAN: 9781630474652

Je vindt dit artikel in

Categorieën: Biografieën & Waargebeurd

Managementboeken

Ondernemers & Bedrijven

Facilitair management

Boeken
Taal: Engels
Boek, ebook of luisterboek?: Boek
Beschikbaarheid: Leverbaar
Studieboek of algemeen: Algemene boeken

Reviews

Nog geen reviews

Hoe controleren en plaatsen wij reviews? Hoe controleren en plaatsen wij reviews?

Negatief, positief, neutraal: we zetten een review altijd online. We controleren wel eerst of ’ie voldoet aan onze reviewvoorwaarden en niet nep is. We controleren ook of ’ie is geschreven door iemand die het artikel heeft gekocht via bol.com en zetten dit er dan bij. De controles gebeuren automatisch, al kijken er soms mensen mee. Bol.com betaalt niet voor reviews. Als een reviewer door een andere partij is vergoed, staat dit in de review zelf.