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Beautiful Data : A History of Vision and Reason Since 1945.

By: Material type: TextSeries: Publisher: Durham : Duke University Press, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (353 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780822376323
Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 003/.54
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Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue. Speculating on Sense -- Introduction. Dreams for Our Perceptual Present -- 1. Archiving. Temporality, Storage, and Interactivity in Cybernetics -- 2. Visualizing. Design, Communicative Objectivity, and the Interface -- 3. Rationalizing. Cognition, Time, and Logic in the Social and Behavioral Sciences -- 4. Governing. Designing Information and Reconfiguring Population circa 1959 -- Conclusion -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: Beautiful Data is both a history of big data and interactivity, and a sophisticated meditation on ideas about vision and cognition in the second half of the twentieth century.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue. Speculating on Sense -- Introduction. Dreams for Our Perceptual Present -- 1. Archiving. Temporality, Storage, and Interactivity in Cybernetics -- 2. Visualizing. Design, Communicative Objectivity, and the Interface -- 3. Rationalizing. Cognition, Time, and Logic in the Social and Behavioral Sciences -- 4. Governing. Designing Information and Reconfiguring Population circa 1959 -- Conclusion -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Beautiful Data is both a history of big data and interactivity, and a sophisticated meditation on ideas about vision and cognition in the second half of the twentieth century.

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