Second Edition of Principles and Practice of Big Data now on Science Direct

The Second edition of my bookPrinciples and Practice of Big Data has just been released and is available for purchase at many sites, includingAmazon.For those of you fortunate enough to have access to Science Direct, you can download chapters of my book at:https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780128156094TABLE OF CONTENTS Author ' s Preface to Second Edition Author ' s Preface to First Edition Chapter 1. Introduction Section 1. Definition of Big Data Section 2. Big Data Versus small data Section 3. Whence Comest Big Data? Section 4. The Most Common Purpose of Big Data is to Produce small data Section 5. Big Data Sits at the Center of the Research Universe Section 6. Case Study: From the Press: Big Claims for Big Data Chapter 2. Providing Structure to Unstructured Data Section 1. Nearly all Data is Unstructured and Unusable in its Raw Form Section 2. Term Extraction Section 3. Autocoding Section 4. Concordances Section 5. Indexing Section 6. Machine Translation Section 7. Case Study: Sorted Lists (Why and Why Not) Section 8. Case Study: Doublet Lists Section 9. Case Study: Ngram Lists Section 10. Case Study: Proximity Searches Using Only a Concordance Section 11. Case Study (Advanced): Burrows Wheeler Transform (BWT) Chapter 3. Identification, Deidentification, and Reidentification Section 1. What are Identifiers? Section 2. Difference Between an Identifier and an Identifier System Section 3. Generating Identifiers Section 4. Really Bad Identifier M...
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