Ebook: Big Data: Does Size Matter?

Part 1: What is it? Where did it come from?. What is data? And what makes it big? Death and taxes. And babies Thinking machines -- Part 2: What has big data ever done for us?. Big business Big science Big society Data-driven democracy -- Part 3: Big ideas?. Big Brother Who do we think you are? Are you a data point or a human being? -- Appendix. Keeping your data private.