About Blog Big Data & Society is a SAGE open access peer - reviewed scholarly journal that publishes interdisciplinary work principally in the social sciences, humanities and computing and their intersections with the arts and natural sciences about
the implications of Big Data for societies.
The challenges are laid out in the World Health Organization's bulletin on policy
implications of big data in the health sector:
Regulators are becoming increasingly aware of the competition and data privacy
implications of big data.
Not exact matches
It's a protagonist in Carole Cadwalladr's now legendary article, «The Great British Brexit Robbery», which looks at the role
of big data analysis firms like Palantir, AggregateIQ and Cambridge Analytica in Brexit, with terrifying
implications for modern democracy.
But it could also have
implications for
big data, since it would allow distributed servers to combine the results
of their
data analyses without aggregating the
data at a central location.
She enjoys working closely with the grad students in the lab, helping them with experimental techniques, editing their manuscripts, and advising them about the
big - picture
implications of their
data and ways to move forward.
Whereas advances in error correction have
big implications for
data storage, a new approach to
data compression could lead to, for example, more efficient use
of the radio waves and spectrum bandwidth (a boon to wireless communications).
Tony Oursler's «PriV & te» draws on the artist's long - standing concern with the
implications of data's encroachment on personal life, in particular
Big Brother's and big business» yearning to map and identify the human fa
Big Brother's and
big business» yearning to map and identify the human fa
big business» yearning to map and identify the human face.
Thomas Wagner, Program Manager for Cryospheric Sciences at NASA Headquarters, added that these results not only show the power
of overlapping satellite mission
data, but also have
big implications for future climate change projections.
Facebook's Cambridge Analytica mess is one
of the
biggest scandals in tech right now and could have far - reaching
implications not only for the world's largest social network, but for every other internet company out there that sells user
data for a living.
But Touch ID has already set off a firestorm
of controversy among privacy advocates who say there could be lots
of Big Brother
implications, especially following revelations by Der Spiegel Online that the N.S.A. already has the ability to capture photos, GPS
data, contacts and texts from iPhones.
Add into the mix the truth that
Big Data knows you better than you know yourself, and the implications for data - mining for the purpose of manipulating elections are stagger
Data knows you better than you know yourself, and the
implications for
data - mining for the purpose of manipulating elections are stagger
data - mining for the purpose
of manipulating elections are staggering.