David J. Hand

Gebundenes Buch

Dark Data

Why What You Don't Know Matters

Beschreibung

A practical guide to making good decisions in a world of missing dataIn the era of big data, it is easy to imagine that we have all the information we need to make good decisions. But in fact the data we have are never complete, and may be only the tip of the iceberg. Just as much of the universe is composed of dark matter, invisible to us but

Autor

David J. Hand is emeritus professor of mathematics and senior research investigator at Imperial College London, a former president of the Royal Statistical Society, and a fellow of the British Academy. His many previous books include The Improbability Principle, Measurement: A Very Short Introduction, Statistics: A Very Short Introduction, and Principles of Data Mining.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 223mm x 145mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 610g
• ISBN-13: 9780691182377
• ISBN-10: 069118237X
• Artikelnr.: 56711355

Rezensionen

"You need to read [Dark Data], and be convinced by David's reasoning and his examples of cases in which unseen or unreported data play a critical and sometimes even a fatal role. You are likely to walk away with the feeling that the term dark data is indeed a very effective one to arouse both curiosity and suspicion, mixed with happiness that finally a great term was coined by a statistician—and sadness that the statistician is not you."---Xiao-Li Meng, IMS Bulletin