
By Rob Kitchin
“Business, government and research funders have largely remained firm in their conviction that big data is set to rise back up the hype cycle’s ‘slope of enlightenment’ to the ‘plateau of productivity’, and, what’s more, it is set to alter fundamentally how science and business are conducted (Sicular 2013)”. This free chapter is taken from Rob Kitchin’s The Data Revolution, which provides a synoptic and critical analysis of the emerging data landscape.
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