Introduction au dossier Data Deluge

“Data,” formerly conceived as a rallying cry of nerds, has become in recent decades a keyword of the age. Admiring advocates of a world ruled by data identify it now with automatic intelligence, scientific impersonality, and computerized efficiency. “Data-driven” has become the most-used phrase in...

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Gepubliceerd in:URI:https://journals.openedition.org/statsoc,
Hoofdauteur: Porter, Theodore M.
Formaat: Article ou chapitre numérique
Taal:Anglais
Gepubliceerd in: Statistique et société 2025
Online toegang:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Samenvatting:“Data,” formerly conceived as a rallying cry of nerds, has become in recent decades a keyword of the age. Admiring advocates of a world ruled by data identify it now with automatic intelligence, scientific impersonality, and computerized efficiency. “Data-driven” has become the most-used phrase in the defense of science, as if data were automatically competent and automatically bias-free. At the same time, this proliferation and celebration of data and data manipulation has been criticized f...