‘How can you not be romantic about baseball?’ Or how we are platonic about data

Author(s):  
Gerald Sim

Due to the influence of Michael Lewis’s book and its film adaptation of the same title, ‘Moneyball’ is now a euphemism for using data analytics to generate insights. These texts perform important cultural explications of machine learning. Methodologically informed by critical discourse analysis, film studies, and cultural studies, this essay describes how the 2011 film in particular aestheticizes epistemological notions such as data framing, the semantic gap, and deep learning. Moneyball also proffers a view of analytics as Platonic knowledge, functioning ideologically alongside nerd archetypes and buddy-comedy conventions. The resultant duality between the Platonic and embodied, innervated by relations between visibility and invisibility, typifies the way people relate to Big Data and to the institutions that govern our digital lives in algorithmic culture. Moneyball performs cultural work by encouraging us to embrace data science while remaining alienated from technology and deferential to experts. Calls for technological literacy in the age of Big Data cannot underestimate the importance of cultural literacy.

Big data and Data science are the two top trends of recent years. Both can be combined together as big data science. This leads to the demand for new system architectures which facilitates the development of processes which can handle huge data volumes without deterring the agility, flexibility and the interactive feel which suits the exploratory approach of a data scientist. Businesses today have found ways of using data as the principal factor for value generation. These data-driven businesses apply a variety of data tools as data analysis is one of the chief elements in this process. In order to raise data science to the new computational level that is required to meet the challenges of big data and interactive advanced analytics, EXASOL has introduced a new technological approach. This tool enables us more effective and easy data analysis.


2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-56
Author(s):  
Akella Subhadra

Data Science is associated with new discoveries, the discovery of value from the data. It is a practice of deriving insights and developing business strategies through transformation of data in to useful information. It has been evaluated as a scientific field and research evolution in disciplines like statistics, computing science, intelligence science, and practical transformation in the domains like science, engineering, public sector, business and lifestyle. The field encompasses the larger areas of artificial intelligence, data analytics, machine learning, pattern recognition, natural language understanding, and big data manipulation. It also tackles related new scientific challenges, ranging from data capture, creation, storage, retrieval, sharing, analysis, optimization, and visualization, to integrative analysis across heterogeneous and interdependent complex resources for better decision-making, collaboration, and, ultimately, value creation. In this paper we entitled epicycles of analysis, formal modeling, from data analysis to data science, data analytics -A keystone of data science, The Big data is not a single technology but an amalgamation of old and new technologies that assistance companies gain actionable awareness. The big data is vital because it manages, store and manipulates large amount of data at the desirable speed and time. Big data addresses detached requirements, in other words the amalgamate of multiple un-associated datasets, processing of large amounts of amorphous data and harvesting of unseen information in a time-sensitive generation. As businesses struggle to stay up with changing market requirements, some companies are finding creative ways to use Big Data to their growing business needs and increasingly complex problems. As organizations evolve their processes and see the opportunities that Big Data can provide, they struggle to beyond traditional Business Intelligence activities, like using data to populate reports and dashboards, and move toward Data Science- driven projects that plan to answer more open-ended and sophisticated questions. Although some organizations are fortunate to have data scientists, most are not, because there is a growing talent gap that makes finding and hiring data scientists in a timely manner is difficult. This paper, aimed to demonstrate a close view about Data science, big data, including big data concepts like data storage, data processing, and data analysis of these technological developments, we also provide brief description about big data analytics and its characteristics , data structures, data analytics life cycle, emphasizes critical points on these issues.


2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
César de Oliveira Ferreira Silva ◽  
Mariana Matulovic ◽  
Rodrigo Lilla Manzione

Abstract Groundwater governance uses modeling to support decision making. Therefore, data science techniques are essential. Specific difficulties arise because variables must be used that cannot be directly measured, such as aquifer recharge and groundwater flow. However, such techniques involve dealing with (often not very explicitly stated) ethical questions. To support groundwater governance, these ethical questions cannot be solved straightforward. In this study, we propose an approach called “open-minded roadmap” to guide data analytics and modeling for groundwater governance decision making. To frame the ethical questions, we use the concept of geoethical thinking, a method to combine geoscience-expertise and societal responsibility of the geoscientist. We present a case study in groundwater monitoring modeling experiment using data analytics methods in southeast Brazil. A model based on fuzzy logic (with high expert intervention) and three data-driven models (with low expert intervention) are tested and evaluated for aquifer recharge in watersheds. The roadmap approach consists of three issues: (a) data acquisition, (b) modeling and (c) the open-minded (geo)ethical attitude. The level of expert intervention in the modeling stage and model validation are discussed. A search for gaps in the model use is made, anticipating issues through the development of application scenarios, to reach a final decision. When the model is validated in one watershed and then extrapolated to neighboring watersheds, we found large asymmetries in the recharge estimatives. Hence, we can show that more information (data, expertise etc.) is needed to improve the models’ predictability-skill. In the resulting iterative approach, new questions will arise (as new information comes available), and therefore, steady recourse to the open-minded roadmap is recommended. Graphic abstract


Web Services ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 1262-1281
Author(s):  
Chitresh Verma ◽  
Rajiv Pandey

Big Data Analytics is a major branch of data science where the huge amount raw data is processed to get insight for relevant business processes. Integration of big data, its analytics along with Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is need of the hour, such integration shall render reusability and scalability to various business processes. This chapter explains the concept of Big Data and Big Data Analytics at its implementation level. The Chapter further describes Hadoop and its technologies which are one of the popular frameworks for Big Data Analytics and envisage integrating SOA with relevant case studies. The chapter demonstrates the SOA integration with Big Data through, two case studies of two different scenarios are incorporated that integrates real world implementation with theory and enables better understanding of the industrial level processes and practices.


Author(s):  
Sheik Abdullah A. ◽  
Selvakumar S. ◽  
Parkavi R. ◽  
Suganya R. ◽  
Abirami A. M.

The importance of big data over analytics made the process of solving various real-world problems simpler. The big data and data science tool box provided a realm of data preparation, data analysis, implementation process, and solutions. Data connections over any data source, data preparation for analysis has been made simple with the availability of tremendous tools in data analytics package. Some of the analytical tools include R programming, python programming, rapid analytics, and weka. The patterns and the granularity over the observed data can be fetched with the visualizations and data observations. This chapter provides an insight regarding the types of analytics in a big data perspective with the realm in applicability towards healthcare data. Also, the processing paradigms and techniques can be clearly observed through the chapter contents.


Author(s):  
Chitresh Verma ◽  
Rajiv Pandey

Big Data Analytics is a major branch of data science where the huge amount raw data is processed to get insight for relevant business processes. Integration of big data, its analytics along with Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is need of the hour, such integration shall render reusability and scalability to various business processes. This chapter explains the concept of Big Data and Big Data Analytics at its implementation level. The Chapter further describes Hadoop and its technologies which are one of the popular frameworks for Big Data Analytics and envisage integrating SOA with relevant case studies. The chapter demonstrates the SOA integration with Big Data through, two case studies of two different scenarios are incorporated that integrates real world implementation with theory and enables better understanding of the industrial level processes and practices.


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