"Raw data" is an oxymoron

by Gitelman, Lisa

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Title Statements

Full title :"Raw data" is an oxymoron / edited by Lisa Gitelman.

Summary

We live in the era of Big Data, with storage and transmission capacity measured not just in terabytes but in petabytes (where peta- denotes a quadrillion, or a thousand trillion). Data collection is constant and even insidious, with every click and every "like" stored somewhere for something. This book reminds us that data is anything but "raw," that we shouldn't think of data as a natural resource but as a cultural one that needs to be generated, protected, and interpreted. The book's essays describe eight episodes in the history of data from the predigital to the digital. Together they address such issues as the ways that different kinds of data and different domains of inquiry are mutually defining; how data are variously "cooked" in the processes of their collection and use; and conflicts over what can -- or can't -- be "reduced" to data. Contributors discuss the intellectual history of data as a concept; describe early financial modeling and some unusual sources for astronomical data; discover the prehistory of the database in newspaper clippings and index cards; and consider contemporary "dataveillance" of our online habits as well as the complexity of scientific data curation. Essay authors:Geoffrey C. Bowker, Kevin R. Brine, Ellen Gruber Garvey, Lisa Gitelman, Steven J. Jackson, Virginia Jackson, Markus Krajewski, Mary Poovey, Rita Raley, David Ribes, Daniel Rosenberg, Matthew Stanley, Travis D. Williams

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2013

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):The MIT Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge, Massachusetts
Language:eng
Publication Date:2013

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (vi, 182 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates) : : illustrations (some color)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0262312328, 9780262312325, 9780262312332, 0262312336
oclc:ocn828680027
LC Classification:Q355
Dewey Decimal:001.4

Data before the fact / Daniel Rosenberg -- Procrustean Marxism and subjective rigor : early modern arithmetic and its readers / Travis D. Williams -- From measuring desire to quantifying expectations : a late nineteenth-century effort to marry economic theory and data / Kevin R. Brine and Mary Poovey -- Where is that moon, anyway? : the problem of interpreting historical solar eclipse observations / Matthew Stanley -- Facts and FACTS : abolitionists' database innovations / Ellen Gruber Garvey -- Paper as passion : Niklas Luhmann and his card index / Markus Krajewski -- Dataveillance & countervailance / Rita Raley -- Data bite man : the work of sustaining a long-term study / David Ribes and Steven J. Jackson.

Subjects

Data transmission systems Data warehousing Databases Entrepôts de données (Informatique) INFORMATION SCIENCE/General INFORMATION SCIENCE/Internet Studies Information theory SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/History o… Théorie de l'information