Critiquing Big Data: Politics, Ethics, Epistemology
Critiquing Big Data: Politics, Ethics, Epistemology
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批判大数据：政治、伦理、认识论
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2014
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Mary L. Gray
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K. Crawford;Kate M. Miltner;Mary L. Gray
为什么是现在？这是我们对大数据现象提出的第一个问题。为什么在世纪的这个时候，它在一系列行业和学术界获得了如此巨大的购买力？大数据作为一个术语，在短短几年内就如雨后春笋般传播开来，涵盖了医疗保健、天文学、警务、城市规划和广告等广阔领域。从我们体内的RNA噬菌体到开普勒太空望远镜，搜索恐怖分子或预测谷物偏好，大数据被部署为一个术语，涵盖了用于大规模分析数据的所有技术。但为什么这个概念现在获得了如此大的吸引力？
Why now? This is the first question we might ask of the big data phenomenon. Why has it gained such remarkable purchase in a range of industries and across academia, at this point in the 21st century? Big data as a term has spread like kudzu in a few short years, ranging across a vast terrain that spans health care, astronomy, policing, city planning, and advertising. From the RNA bacteriophages in our bodies to the Kepler Space Telescope, searching for terrorists or predicting cereal preferences, big data is deployed as the term of art to encompass all the techniques used to analyze data at scale. But why has the concept gained such traction now?