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May 29, 2019 06:09AM
I'm sure we can trust Goodreads to look after all our reading data....
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Radio 4 has been here several times. Here are some links to some downloadable podcasts...Big Data
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03b...
Big Data
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b9...
The Morality of Big Data
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09w...
Oracle - can big data predict the future?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09w...
One of the more accessible VSIs, this title covered the ground well and concisely. The more technical side of things was present, but for those not all that interested the bigger societal picture was there, with Wikileaks, Snowden, hacking and the influence of the big internet companies nicely introduced. It was very effective in putting across the sheer scale of how much data is now present in the world and the speed of development. A little more on the sustainability of such a scale - the raw materials needed to preserve the data and the power needed to keep it functioning - would have been useful, but overall a very good and thought provoking addition to the series.
