Boing Boing big data book review today

[Matthew Miller]

http://boingboing.net/2013/03/08/big-data-a-revolutio.html

Big Data is a new book from Viktor Mayer-Schonberger, a respected
   Internet governance theorist; and Kenneth Cukier, a long-time technology
   journalist who's been on the Economist's for many years. As the title and
   pedigree imply, this is a business-oriented book about "Big Data," a
   computational approach to business, regulation, science and entertainment
   that uses data-mining applied to massive, Internet-connected data-sets to
   learn things that previous generations weren't able to see because their
   data was too thin and diffuse.

Big Data is an eminently practical and sensible book, but it's also an
  exciting and excitable text, one that conveys enormous enthusiasm for the
  field and its fruits.

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