1st Edition
Cyber Society, Big Data, and Evaluation
272 Pages
by
Routledge
272 Pages
by
Routledge
272 Pages
by
Routledge
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We are living in a cyber society. Mobile devices, social media, the Internet, crime cameras, and other diverse sources can be pulled together to form massive datasets, known as big data, which make it possible to learn things we could not begin to comprehend otherwise. While private companies are using this macroscopic tool, policy-makers and evaluators have been slower to adopt big data to make... Read more
1. Cyber Society, Big Data, and Evaluation: An Introduction 2. What Is Big Data? 3. The Current Use of Big Data in Evaluation 4. Getting Started with Big Data: The Promises and Challenges of Evaluating Health-Care Quality 5. Big Data, Real-World Events, and Evaluations 6. Using Big Data to Study Digital Piracy and the Copyright Alert System 7. Protecting America’s Biggest Sporting Spectacle 8. Keeping Traffic and Transit Passengers Moving — The Use of Big Data 9. Exploring Big (Data) Opportunities: The Case of the Center for Innovation through Data Intelligence (CIDI), New York City 10. Using “Big Data” for Equity-Focused Evaluation— Understanding and Utilizing the Dynamics of Data Ecosystems 11. Real-Time Monitoring and Evaluation—Emerging News as Predictive Process Using Big Data-Based Approach 12. Big Bang or Big Bust? The Role and Implications of Big Data in Evaluation 13. Cyber Society, Big Data, and Evaluation: A Future Perspective Contributors Index
Biography
Jonathan D. Breul, Gustav Jakob Petersson
