Data, Now Bigger and Better!
Data, Now Bigger and Better! by Tom Boellstorff is an illustrated edition published by Prickly Paradigm Press in 2015, comprising 108 pages in English. This book presents a collection of insights from five researchers who explore the intersection of anthropology and data science. It challenges the notion that data should be solely the domain of data analysts, emphasizing the importance of anthropological frameworks in understanding big data.
Readers will find a critical examination of how anthropological concepts, such as kinship and gifts, can illuminate contemporary discussions surrounding data analytics and social science. The contributors draw on their extensive experience in both academic and industry contexts to provide analytical provocations that address significant shifts in technology and society. This edition invites readers to reconsider the implications of big data through a comparative and field-based lens, moving beyond the typical hype associated with the topic.
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“Data is too big to be left to the data analysts! Here, Prickly Paradigm brings together five researchers whose work is deeply informed by anthropology, understood as more than a basket of ethnographic methods like participants observation and interviewing. The value of anthropology lies also in its conceptual frameworks, frameworks that are comparative as well as field-based. Kinship! Gifts! Everything old is new when the anthropological archive washes over ‘big data’. Bringing together anthropology’s classic debates and contemporary interventions, this book counters the future-oriented hype and speculation so characteristic of discussions regarding big data. By drawing as well on long experience in industry contexts, the contributors provide analytical provocations that can help reframe what may prove to be some of the most important shifts in technology and society in the first half of the twenty-first century”–Back cover.
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