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Reality Mining : Using Big Data to Engineer a Better World.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: The MIT Press SeriesPublisher: Cambridge : MIT Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (206 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780262324564
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Reality MiningDDC classification:
  • 006.3/12
LOC classification:
  • QA76.9.D343.E24 201
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- I The Individual (One Person) -- 1 Mobile Phones, Sensors, and Lifelogging: Collecting Data from Individuals While Considering Privacy -- 2 Using Personal Data in a Privacy-Sensitive Way to Make a Person's Life Easier and Healthier -- II The Neighborhood and the Organization (10 to 1,000 People) -- 3 Gathering Data from Small HeterogeneousGroups -- 4 Engineering and Policy: Building More EfficientBusinesses, Enabling Hyperlocal Politics, LifeQueries, and Opportunity Searches -- III The City (1,000 to 1,000,000 People) -- 5 Traffic Data, Crime Stats, and Closed-Circuit Cameras: Accumulating Urban Analytics -- 6 Engineering and Policy: Optimizing Resource Allocation -- IV The Nation (1 Million to 100 Million People) -- 7 Taking the Pulse of a Nation: Census, Mobile Phones, and Internet Giants -- 8 Engineering and Policy: Addressing National Sentiment, Economic Deficits, and Disasters -- V Reality Mining the World's Data (100 Million to 7 Billion People) -- 9 Gathering the World's Data: Global Census, International Travel and Commerce, and Planetary-Scale Communication -- 10 Engineering a Safer and Healthier World -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index.
Summary: A look at how Big Data can be put to positive use, from helping users break bad habits to tracking the global spread of disease.
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Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- I The Individual (One Person) -- 1 Mobile Phones, Sensors, and Lifelogging: Collecting Data from Individuals While Considering Privacy -- 2 Using Personal Data in a Privacy-Sensitive Way to Make a Person's Life Easier and Healthier -- II The Neighborhood and the Organization (10 to 1,000 People) -- 3 Gathering Data from Small HeterogeneousGroups -- 4 Engineering and Policy: Building More EfficientBusinesses, Enabling Hyperlocal Politics, LifeQueries, and Opportunity Searches -- III The City (1,000 to 1,000,000 People) -- 5 Traffic Data, Crime Stats, and Closed-Circuit Cameras: Accumulating Urban Analytics -- 6 Engineering and Policy: Optimizing Resource Allocation -- IV The Nation (1 Million to 100 Million People) -- 7 Taking the Pulse of a Nation: Census, Mobile Phones, and Internet Giants -- 8 Engineering and Policy: Addressing National Sentiment, Economic Deficits, and Disasters -- V Reality Mining the World's Data (100 Million to 7 Billion People) -- 9 Gathering the World's Data: Global Census, International Travel and Commerce, and Planetary-Scale Communication -- 10 Engineering a Safer and Healthier World -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index.

A look at how Big Data can be put to positive use, from helping users break bad habits to tracking the global spread of disease.

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