"Data Action will offer a model for reading, collecting, visualizing, and putting data to work on civic change. Using arresting graphics and influential case studies, as well as incorporating cultural and historical context, Data Action presents a helpful corrective to standard practice. Historically, data has been used and manipulated to make policy decisions without input from the general pub…
"The ambition of this book is to examine in close detail the whole range of epistemological, political and ethical uncertainties that are being raised by big data in our time"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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"A trade book on the economics of the internet and the policies that have shaped our view of online activity"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
A toolkit of basic principles to help those in business, industry, law, and other professions deal with a constantly changing communications sector. OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
This study charts the origins and spread of the systems movement. It describes the major players - including RAND, MITRE, Ramo-Wooldrige (later TRW), and the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis - and examines applications in a wide variety of military, government, civil, and engineering settings. The book is international in scope, describing the spread of systems thinking in Fr…
A Bradford book. Systems That Learn presents a mathematical framework for the study of learning in a variety of domains. It provides the basic concepts and techniques of learning theory as well as a comprehensive account of what is currently known about a variety of learning paradigms.Daniel N. Osherson and Scott Weinstein are at MIT, and Michael Stob at Calvin College."OCLC-licensed vendor bib…
A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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Includes index.Looking at knowledge as a shared resource: experts discuss how to define, protect, and build the knowledge commons in the digital age."Knowledge in digital form offers unprecedented access to information through the Internet but at the same time is subject to ever-greater restrictions through intellectual property legislation, overpatenting, licensing, overpricing, and lack of pr…