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Apr 30, 2024 | ISBN 9780262048811

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“Chock-full of examples of new visioning and computing technology . . . The Secret Life of Data provides a broad, nontechnical, and highly readable introduction to the intersection of data, computing technologies, and contemporary society.”
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Table Of Contents

Contents
Introduction ix
1 DATA ABOUT DATA (ABOUT DATA) 1
2 ALL DATA ARE BIG DATA 25
3 BIG DATA BLUES 55
4 OUR DEVICES ARE “SMART.” BUT ARE WE? 83 
5 THE SECRET DATA OF LIFE 109
6 THE OVEREXAMINED LIFE 137
7 ALL THE WORLD’S A STACK 161
8 DATA AND DEMOCRACY 185
Conclusion: Data Afterlives 213
Acknowledgments 239
Notes 241
Index 271

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