Too Big to Know

Author: David Weinberger
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0465038727
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 258

Book Description
"If anyone knows anything about the web, where it's been and where it's going, it's David Weinberger. . . . Too Big To Know is an optimistic, if not somewhat cautionary tale, of the information explosion." -- Steven Rosenbaum, Forbes With the advent of the Internet and the limitless information it contains, we're less sure about what we know, who knows what, or even what it means to know at all. And yet, human knowledge has recently grown in previously unimaginable ways and in inconceivable directions. In Too Big to Know, David Weinberger explains that, rather than a systemic collapse, the Internet era represents a fundamental change in the methods we have for understanding the world around us. With examples from history, politics, business, philosophy, and science, Too Big to Know describes how the very foundations of knowledge have been overturned, and what this revolution means for our future.

Too Big to Ignore

Author: Phil Simon
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118641868
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 256

Book Description
Residents in Boston, Massachusetts are automatically reporting potholes and road hazards via their smartphones. Progressive Insurance tracks real-time customer driving patterns and uses that information to offer rates truly commensurate with individual safety. Google accurately predicts local flu outbreaks based upon thousands of user search queries. Amazon provides remarkably insightful, relevant, and timely product recommendations to its hundreds of millions of customers. Quantcast lets companies target precise audiences and key demographics throughout the Web. NASA runs contests via gamification site TopCoder, awarding prizes to those with the most innovative and cost-effective solutions to its problems. Explorys offers penetrating and previously unknown insights into healthcare behavior. How do these organizations and municipalities do it? Technology is certainly a big part, but in each case the answer lies deeper than that. Individuals at these organizations have realized that they don't have to be Nate Silver to reap massive benefits from today's new and emerging types of data. And each of these organizations has embraced Big Data, allowing them to make astute and otherwise impossible observations, actions, and predictions. It's time to start thinking big. In Too Big to Ignore, recognized technology expert and award-winning author Phil Simon explores an unassailably important trend: Big Data, the massive amounts, new types, and multifaceted sources of information streaming at us faster than ever. Never before have we seen data with the volume, velocity, and variety of today. Big Data is no temporary blip of fad. In fact, it is only going to intensify in the coming years, and its ramifications for the future of business are impossible to overstate. Too Big to Ignore explains why Big Data is a big deal. Simon provides commonsense, jargon-free advice for people and organizations looking to understand and leverage Big Data. Rife with case studies, examples, analysis, and quotes from real-world Big Data practitioners, the book is required reading for chief executives, company owners, industry leaders, and business professionals.

When My Worries Get Too Big!

Author:
Publisher: AAPC Publishing
ISBN: 9781931282925
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 50

Book Description
Presents ways for young children with anxiety to recognize when they are losing control and constructive ways to deal with it.

Too Big

Author: Claire Masurel
Publisher: Chronicle Books (CA)
ISBN: 9780811820905
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
When Charlie wins at the carnival, he chooses the biggest prize of all-a blue dinosaur. But soon Charlie discovers that Big Tex is too big to go to the park, so he must take Bunny instead. It seems Big Tex is too big to go anywhere! That is until Charlie gets sick and must go to the doctor. All of his small stuffed animals hide. But not Big Tex who is just the right size. This sweet story will appeal to any child who has ever felt too small. Ages 2-6.

Too Big to Fall

Author: Barry B. LePatner
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 0984497803
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 265

Book Description
A comprehensive overview of the shocking state of our nation's infrastructure and what must be done to fix it

My Foot Is Too Big for the Glass Slipper

Author: Gabrielle Reece
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451692706
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 224

Book Description
So you got the guy on the big white horse, and the beautiful little mermaids, and the picket fence, and your life isn’ t . . . perfect in every imaginable way? You’re not alone. In 1997, Gabrielle Reece married the man of her dreams—professional surfer Laird Hamilton—in a flawless Hawaiian ceremony. Naturally, the couple filed for divorce four years later. In the end they worked it out, but not without the ups and downs, minor hiccups, and major setbacks that beset every modern family. With hilarious stories, wise insights, and concrete takeaways on topics ranging from navigating relationship issues to aging gracefully to getting smart about food, My Foot Is Too Big for the Glass Slipper is the brutally honest, wickedly funny, and deeply helpful portrait of the humor, grace, and humility it takes to survive the happily ever after.

When My Autism Gets Too Big!

Author: Kari Dunn Buron
Publisher: AAPC Publishing
ISBN: 9781931282512
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 50

Book Description
Presents ways for young children with autism spectrum disorders to recognize when they are losing control and constructive ways to deal with it.

Too Big, Too Small, Just Right

Author: Frances Minters
Publisher: HMH Books For Young Readers
ISBN: 9780152021573
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 38

Book Description
Two energetic rabbits searching for a new home encounter such opposites as big and small, short and tall, and heavy and light--and finally discover the things in life that are "just right". Full color.

You're Never Too Big to Hold

Author: Barbara Bassett
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780615397238
Category : Hugging
Languages : en
Pages : 32

Book Description

Too Big to Know

Author: David Weinberger
Publisher:
ISBN: 0465021425
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 258

Book Description
Internet philosopher Weinberger shows how business, science, education, and the government are learning to use networked knowledge to understand more than ever and to make smarter decisions than they could when they had to rely on mere books and experts.