Which paint color is most likely to tell you that a used car is in good shape? How can officials identify the most dangerous New York City manholes before they explode? And how did Google searches predict the spread of the H1N1 flu outbreak? Authors Viktor Mayer-Schonberger and Kenneth Cukier assert that the key to answering these questions, and many more, is "big data", that is, our burgeoning ability to crunch vast collections of information, analyze it instantly, and draw sometimes profoundly surprising conclusions from it. In
Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think, Mayer-Schonberger and Cukier have written a
revelatory exploration of the hottest trend in technology and the dramatic impact it will have on the economy, science, and society at large.
Richard Melo: Happy Talk
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