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Head in the cloud : why knowing things still matters when facts are so easy to look up / by Poundstone, William,author.(CARDINAL)171005;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-323) and index.Introduction: Facts are obsolete -- Part One: The Dunning-Kruger effect -- 1. "I wore the juice" -- 2. A map of ignorance -- 3. Dumb history -- 4. The one-in-five rule -- 5. The low-information electorate -- Part Two: The knowledge premium -- 6. Putting a price tag on facts -- 7. Elevator-pitch science -- 8. Grammar police, grammar hippies -- 9. Nanoframe -- 10. Is shrimp kosher? -- 11. Philosophers and reality stars -- 12. Sex and absurdity -- 13. Moving the goalposts -- 14. Marshmallow test -- 15. The value of superficial learning -- Part Three: Strategies for a culturally illiterate world -- 16. When dumbing down is smart -- 17. Curating knowledge -- 18. The ice-cap riddle -- 19. The fox and the hedgehog.Looks at the state of knowledge in the American public, and demonstrates how many areas of knowledge correlate with quality of life, politics, and behavior, arguing that being knowledgeable has significant value even when facts can be looked up with little effort.
Subjects: Knowledge, Theory of.; Big data.; Information behavior.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Reinventing capitalism in the age of big data / by Mayer-Schönberger, Viktor,author.(CARDINAL)361867; Ramge, Thomas,1971-author.(CARDINAL)542779;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-260) and index.Discusses how data is replacing money as the driver of market behavior and shares predictions for how data will revolutionize the market economy and make cash, banks, and big companies obsolete. --Publisher.
Subjects: Information technology; Big data; Data mining;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Privacy in the age of big data : recognizing threats, defending your rights, and protecting your family / by Payton, Theresa,1966-author.(CARDINAL)399044; Claypoole, Ted,1963-author.(CARDINAL)399043; Schmidt, Howard A.,writer of preface.(CARDINAL)552193;
Includes bibliographical references and index.The intersection of privacy, law, and technology -- Ground Zero: Your computer and the internet. Your computer is watching you -- How government follows your electronics tracks -- Chased online by criminals and snoops -- Just hanging out online... -- The spy in your pocket -- Risks in the streets. Cameras everywhere -- When your car is just another computer -- When your own body gives you away -- DNA and your health records -- Home is where the heart (of surveillance) is. Home sweet home: spies in your living room -- Risks of computer and phone networks -- Where do we go from here? The future of technology and privacy -- Laws and regulations that could help preserve privacy.Privacy in the Age of Big Data highlights the many positive outcomes of digital surveillance and data collection, while also outlining those forms of data collection to which we do not always consent, and of which we are likely unaware, as well as the dangers inherent in such surveillance and tracking. Theresa M. Payton and Theodore Claypoole skillfully introduce readers to the many ways we are "watched" and how to change behaviors and activities to recapture and regain more of our privacy.--[book jacket]
Subjects: Data protection; Electronic surveillance; Privacy, Right of;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 8
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Uncharted : big data as a lens on human culture / by Aiden, Erez,author.(CARDINAL)549335; Michel, Jean-Baptiste,author.(CARDINAL)386960;
Includes bibliographical references and index." "One of the most exciting developments from the world of ideas in decades, presented with panache by two frighteningly brilliant, endearingly unpretentious, and endlessly creative young scientists." - Steven Pinker, author of The Better Angels of Our Nature. Our society has gone from writing snippets of information by hand to generating a vast flood of 1s and 0s that record almost every aspect of our lives: who we know, what we do, where we go, what we buy, and who we love. This year, the world will generate 5 zettabytes of data. (That's a five with twenty-one zeros after it.) Big data is revolutionizing the sciences, transforming the humanities, and renegotiating the boundary between industry and the ivory tower. What is emerging is a new way of understanding our world, our past, and possibly, our future. In Uncharted, Erez Aiden and Jean-Baptiste Michel tell the story of how they tapped into this sea of information to create a new kind of telescope: a tool that, instead of uncovering the motions of distant stars, charts trends in human history across the centuries. By teaming up with Google, they were able to analyze the text of millions of books. The result was a new field of research and a scientific tool, the Google Ngram Viewer, so groundbreaking that its public release made the front page of The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Boston Globe, and so addictive that Mother Jones called it "the greatest timewaster in the history of the internet." Using this scope, Aiden and Michel--and millions of users worldwide--are beginning to see answers to a dizzying array of once intractable questions. How quickly does technology spread? Do we talk less about God today? When did people start "having sex" instead of "making love"? At what age do the most famous people become famous? How fast does grammar change? Which writers had their works most effectively censored by the Nazis? When did the spelling "donut" start replacing the venerable "doughnut"? Can we predict the future of human history? Who is better known--Bill Clinton or the rutabaga? All over the world, new scopes are popping up, using big data to quantify the human experience at the grandest scales possible. Yet dangers lurk in this ocean of 1s and 0s--threats to privacy and the specter of ubiquitous government surveillance. Aiden and Michel take readers on a voyage through these uncharted waters"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Big data; Culture.; Internet;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 5
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The deep learning revolution / by Sejnowski, Terrence J.(Terrence Joseph),author.(CARDINAL)761089;
Includes bibliographical references and index.The deep learning revolution has brought us driverless cars, the greatly improved Google Translate, fluent conversations with Siri and Alexa, and enormous profits from automated trading on the New York Stock Exchange. Deep learning networks can play poker better than professional poker players and defeat a world champion at Go. In this book, Terry Sejnowski explains how deep learning went from being an arcane academic field to a disruptive technology in the information economy. Sejnowski played an important role in the founding of deep learning, as one of a small group of researchers in the 1980s who challenged the prevailing logic-and-symbol based version of AI. The new version of AI Sejnowski and others developed, which became deep learning, is fueled instead by data. Deep networks learn from data in the same way that babies experience the world, starting with fresh eyes and gradually acquiring the skills needed to navigate novel environments. Learning algorithms extract information from raw data; information can be used to create knowledge; knowledge underlies understanding; understanding leads to wisdom. Someday a driverless car will know the road better than you do and drive with more skill; a deep learning network will diagnose your illness; a personal cognitive assistant will augment your puny human brain. It took nature many millions of years to evolve human intelligence; AI is on a trajectory measured in decades. Sejnowski prepares us for a deep learning future.
Subjects: Machine learning.; Big data.; Artificial intelligence;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The decoded company : know your talent better than you know your customers / by Segal, Leerom.(CARDINAL)405747;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Google amazes us by generating answers before we even finish asking a question. Netflix delights us with spot-on recommendations. These companies use the power of Big Data--the collection and analysis of massive amounts of information. It's one of the hottest concepts in business. But while many companies are embracing Big Data to understand their customers, very few are applying it to their own employees. One of the pioneers in that effort has been acclaimed digital marketing agency Klick Health. Now Klick's leaders share the principles that guided their fast growth and low turnover. Klick CEO Leerom Segal and his colleagues show how personalizing each employee's experience can increase their engagement, help them learn new skills faster, and be placed with the right teams. The authors outline the three transformative ideas they've developed for "decoding" any company or department--figuring out what really makes it tick, so you can maximize its potential"--"Google amazes us by generating answers before we even finish asking a question. Netflix delights us with spot-on recommendations. These companies use the power of Big Data-the collection and analysis of massive amounts of information. It's one of the hottest concepts in business. But while many companies are embracing Big Data to understand their customers, very few are applying it to their own employees. One of the pioneers in that effort has been acclaimed digital marketing agency Klick Health. Now Klick's leaders share the principles that guided their fast growth and low turnover. Klick CEO Leerom Segal and his colleagues show how personalizing each employee's experience can increase their engagement, help them learn new skills faster, and be placed with the right teams. The authors outline the three transformative ideas they've developed for "decoding" any company or department-figuring out what really makes it tick, so you can maximize its potential. The authors share success stories from Klick and other organizations, and offer a bold new approach to designing and managing a workplace. The result is a groundbreaking book for any company that wants the best from its people"--
Subjects: Big data.; Corporations.; Employees.; Organizational behavior.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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The efficiency paradox : what big data can't do / by Tenner, Edward,author.(CARDINAL)186139;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-263) and index."A bold challenge to our obsession with efficiency--and a new understanding of how to benefit from the powerful potential of serendipity. Algorithms, multitasking, the sharing economy, life hacks: our culture can't get enough of efficiency. One of the great promises of the Internet and big data revolutions is the idea that we can improve the processes and routines of our work and personal lives to get more done in less time than ever before. There is no doubt that we're performing at higher levels and moving at unprecedented speed, but what if we're headed in the wrong direction? Melding the long-term history of technology with the latest headlines and findings of computer science and social science, The Efficiency Paradox questions our ingrained assumptions about efficiency, persuasively showing how relying on the algorithms of platforms can in fact lead to wasted efforts, missed opportunities, and above all an inability to break out of established patterns. Edward Tenner offers a smarter way of thinking about efficiency, revealing what we and our institutions, when equipped with an astute combination of artificial intelligence and trained intuition, can learn from the random and unexpected."--"Bold challenge to our obsession with efficiency--and a new understanding of how to benefit from the powerful potential of serendipity"--Preface: The seven deadly sins of efficiency : why it is still a work in progress -- From mill to platform : how the nineteenth century redefined efficiency and the twenty-first has transformed it -- The failed promise of the information explosion : how the quest to measure elite science empowered populist culture -- The mirage of the teaching machine : why learning is still a slog after fifty years of Moore's Law -- Moving targets : what geographic information can't do -- The managed body : why we are still waiting for RoboDoc -- Inspired inefficiency : how to balance algorithm and intuition.
Subjects: Industrial efficiency.; Serendipity.; Artificial intelligence.; Big data.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Privacy is power : why and how you should take back control of your data / by Véliz, Carissa,author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-271) and index.Introduction -- Data vultures -- How did we get here? -- Privacy is power -- Toxic data -- Pulling the plug -- What you can do -- Conclusion.Every minute of every day, our data is harvested and exploited... It is time to pull the plug on the surveillance economy. Governments and hundreds of corporations are spying on you, and everyone you know. They're not just selling your data. They're selling the power to influence you and decide for you. Even when you've explicitly asked them not to. ming privacy is the only way we can regain control of our lives and our societies. These governments and corporations have too much power, and their power stems from us--from our data. Privacy is as collective as it is personal, and it's time to take back control. Privacy Is Power tells you how to do exactly that. It calls for the end of the data economy and proposes concrete measures to bring that end about, offering practical solutions, both for policymakers and ordinary citizens.
Subjects: Privacy, Right of.; Internet; Data protection.; Computer security.; Big data;
Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 6
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Life after Google :the fall of big data and the rise of the blockchain economy. [sound recording] : / by Gilder, George F., 1939- ;
Argues that the massive Silicon Valley corporations will soon be left behind by a new computer and network architecture based on blockchains, a shift that will enable cryptocurrencies and end dependence on advertising.
Subjects: Big data.; Blockchains (Databases); Database security.; Electronic commerce.; High technology industries -- Forecasting.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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All you can pay : how companies use our data to empty our wallets / by Bernasek, Anna,author.(CARDINAL)498531; Mongan, D. T.,author.(CARDINAL)620751;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Consumer behavior; Consumer behavior; Internet marketing.; Data mining.; Big data.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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