All About Data: Big & Small

On display, from November 17, 2015 to January 4, 2016, at the Bentley Library is an interdisciplinary collection of books highlighting research about data. Included are popular and scholarly works about collecting it, obtaining it, analyzing it, evaluating it and finally accounting for it. Visit the library and browse through the physical display located in front of The McGladrey Art Gallery or view the contents of the display online. If you see something online you would like, just request it through the library catalog, and you will be notified when the item is available on the hold shelf for you. Many of the titles in this collection are also available electronically through Books 24x7.com and Overdrive Downloadable Books. To highlight a few: Books 24x7.com: (Of note: Multiple users can view the same content at the same time.)

• Big Data, Little Data, No Data: Scholarship in the Networked World by Christine L. Borgman.
• Bursting the Big Data Bubble: The Case for Intuition-Based Decision Making edited by Jay Liebowitz.
• Handbook of Digital Currency: Bitcoin, Innovation, Financial Instruments, and Big Data edited by David Lee Kuo Chuen.

Overdrive Downloadable Books: (Of note: Downloadable content is checked out to one user at a time.)

• Big Data : A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think by Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Kenneth Cukier.
• Dataclysm : Our Life in Numbers by Christian Rudder.
• The Organized Mind : Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload by Daniel J. Levintin.

We hope that you enjoy this display. If you notice we are missing a title on this topic, please feel free to suggest a purchase.