Browsing Sociology by Subject "Data"

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    • Better Business Decisions from Data: Statistical Analysis for Professional Success 

      Kenny, Peter (Apress, 2014)
      Among other things, this book covers: How statistics can help you assess the probability of a successful outcome How data is collected, sampled, and best interpreted. How to make effective forecasts based on the data at ...

    • Big Data: Opportunities and challenges. 

      Farrant, Natasha (Faber & Faber, 2015)
      This ebook aims to give practical guidance for all those who want to understand big data better and learn how to make the most of it. Topics range from big data analysis, mobile big data and managing unstructured data to ...

    • Data-Driven Modeling and Scientific Computation: Methods for Complex Systems and Big Data 

      Kutz, J. Nathan (Oxford University Press, 2013)
      The burgeoning field of data analysis is expanding at an incredible pace due to the proliferation of data collection in almost every area of science. The enormous data sets now routinely encountered in the sciences provide ...

    • Indexing It All: The Subject in the Age of Documentation, Information, and Data 

      Day, Ronald E. (MIT Press, 2014)
      In this book, Ronald Day offers a critical history of the modern tradition of documentation. Focusing on the documentary index (understood as a mode of social positioning), and drawing on the work of the French documentalist ...

    • Information and Society 

      Buckland, Michael (MIT Press, 2017)
      A short, informal account of our ever-increasing dependence on a complex multiplicity of messages, records, documents, and data. We live in an information society, or so we are often told. But what does that mean? This ...

    • The Intelligent Web: Search, smart algorithms, and big data 

      Shroff, Gautam (Oxford University Press, 2014)
      As we use the Web for social networking, shopping, and news, we leave a personal trail. These days, linger over a Web page selling lamps, and they will turn up at the advertising margins as you move around the Internet, ...

    • Statistics: The Art and Science of Learning From Data 

      Agresti, Alan; Franklin, Christine A.; Klingenberg, Bernhard (Pearson, 2017)
      Statistics: The Art and Science of Learning from Data, Fourth Edition, takes a conceptual approach, helping students understand what statistics is about and learning the right questions to ask when analyzing data, rather ...