books on data science or "Big Data"

Tue May 14 08:14:13 EDT 2013

I do appreciate the references. Many thanks.

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Bill Drew:

Here are a few additional references related to big data. I think many of us
would appreciate receiving the bibliography you compile based on your query
and further search; please post to this list or send separately.

Thanks,
Nick Jankowski
nickjan at xs4all.nl

Anderson, C. (2008, June 23). The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the
Scientific Method Obsolete. Wired Magazine, (Science: Discoveries).
Available at:
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/magazine/16-07/pb_theory

Bollier, D. (rapporteur) (2010). The promise and peril of big data.
Washington, DC: The Aspen Institute. Available at:
http://www.aspeninstitute.org/publications/promise-peril-big-data

boyd, d. & Crawford, K. (2011). Six provocations for big data. Conference
paper. Available at SSRN:
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1926431

boyd, d. & Crawford, K. (2012). Critical questions for big data:
provocations for a cultural, technological, and scholarly phenomenon.
Information, Communication and Society 15:5. Abstract available at:
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369118X.2012.678878#.UY4j3MqcFTI

Snijders, C., Matzat, U., & Ulf-Dietrich, R. (2012). "Big data": Big gaps of
knowledge in the field of internet science. International Journal of
Internet Science, 8(1). Available at:
http://www.ijis.net/ijis7_1/ijis7_1_editorial_pre.html

Zikopoulos, P. C. et al. (2012). Understanding Big Data: Analytics for
Enterprise Class Hadoop and Streaming Data. New York: McGraw Hill. 
Available from IBM at:
https://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/iwm/web/signup.do?source=sw-infomgt&S_
PKG=500016891&S_CMP=is_bdebook1_bdmicrornav

> Not a book, and not primarily technical, but Harvard Business Review 
> had an interesting "big data"/data science-themed issue a few months ago.
> http://hbr.org/archive-toc/BR1210
>
> It's a good review of the practical difficulties of making good use of 
> big
> data:  (1) The field is new. The credentials and standards of a mature 
> field are lacking, so capable and creative data scientists are few in 
> number, and are therefore hard to identify, recruit, use effectively 
> and retain ; (2) Managers and leaders don't know why or how to 
> effectively use big data.
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> Hi Bill,
>
> A couple that have been on my shelves and perusal recently:
>
> Data mining methods for the content analyst : an introduction to the 
> computational analysis of content / Kalev Hannes Leetaru.
>
> Managing Research Data (Pryor ed) from facet
>
> Facilitating Access to the web of data  (Stuart) also from Facet
>
>
>
> O'Reilly has some stuff though I've not had a chance to explore deeply 
> into that.
>
>
>
> Abigail
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> On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 11:19 AM, Drew, Wilfred E CTR USAF AFMC 
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> I am looking for technical books and research oriented books on data 
> science or "Big Data."  Any suggestions or sources for reviews of such 
> titles?
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