big data

by krasovic

The outfit that started the STEM program at my child’s school is into “big data analytics.” I don’t mean to single them out, but to use them as a door into this larger world.

As a mentor once said during an AHA panel we once did together at the dawn of the digital humanities (at least for me), “When the creator talks, we should listen.” And then he quoted Tim Berners-Lee. So we should start with “The Semantic Web.” (Scientific American)

There are “knowledge engineers” and “semantic web engineers.” (AKSW)

I had never heard of any of this until today.

David Harvey, A Brief History of Neoliberalism: neoliberalism “holds that the social good will be maximized by maximizing the reach and frequency of market transactions, and it seeks to bring all human action into the domain of the market. This requires technologies of information creation and capacities to accumulate, store, transfer, analyse, and use massive databases to guide decisions in the global marketplace. Hence neoliberalism’s intense interest in and pursuit of information technologies (leading some to proclaim the emergence of a new kind of ‘information society’)” (3-4).