Download or read book Raw Data Is an Oxymoron written by Lisa Gitelman and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2013-01-25 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Episodes in the history of data, from early modern math problems to today's inescapable “dataveillance,” that demonstrate the dependence of data on culture. We live in the era of Big Data, with storage and transmission capacity measured not just in terabytes but in petabytes (where peta- denotes a quadrillion, or a thousand trillion). Data collection is constant and even insidious, with every click and every “like” stored somewhere for something. This book reminds us that data is anything but “raw,” that we shouldn't think of data as a natural resource but as a cultural one that needs to be generated, protected, and interpreted. The book's essays describe eight episodes in the history of data from the predigital to the digital. Together they address such issues as the ways that different kinds of data and different domains of inquiry are mutually defining; how data are variously “cooked” in the processes of their collection and use; and conflicts over what can—or can't—be “reduced” to data. Contributors discuss the intellectual history of data as a concept; describe early financial modeling and some unusual sources for astronomical data; discover the prehistory of the database in newspaper clippings and index cards; and consider contemporary “dataveillance” of our online habits as well as the complexity of scientific data curation. Essay Authors Geoffrey C. Bowker, Kevin R. Brine, Ellen Gruber Garvey, Lisa Gitelman, Steven J. Jackson, Virginia Jackson, Markus Krajewski, Mary Poovey, Rita Raley, David Ribes, Daniel Rosenberg, Matthew Stanley, Travis D. Williams

Download or read book Seriously Funny and Other Oxymorons written by Simon Brett and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2017-09-07 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Brilliant! Will make a perfect Xmas stocking filler' Bronya Ralley 'Delightful. This dip-in-anywhere book put a smile on my face from the first page . . . for everyone who likes a good chuckle' Ruth Milligan As we all know, the oxymoron is one of the great beauties of the English language. It has been defined as 'a figure of speech that juxtaposes elements that appear to be contradictory'. Famous examples would include 'bitter-sweet', 'open secret' and 'compassionate Conservatism'. Seriously Funny, and Other Oxymorons brings together a great many examples of the oxymoron genre, amusingly illustrated by Paul Thomas. The book is arranged according to various categories ranging from Popular Culture to Political Principles and Business Ethics, all covered in Simon Brett's inimitably witty style. Anyone with an 'unbiased opinion' will quickly grasp that Seriously Funny makes a 'devilishly nice' book.

Download or read book Time Management Is an Oxymoron written by Maynard Rolston and published by Leathers Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Managing effectively is a learned skill. But many people have never learned the proper techniques for handling paper, e-mail and the telephone effectively.More than ever, today's managers and employees need to be better organized in order to succeed in the workplace. They must be able to manage multiple tasks and get more work done in less time.This book Can help!Time Management is an Oxymoron, just released by Leathers Publishing, was written by paper handling, e-mail and telephone management expert Maynard Rolston. Rolston has developed and conducted workshops with a proven track record for generating change by teaching people how to get more done in less time.This book will help managers and employees alike learn to implement the author's 5-step paper handling process, in addition to better managing themselves.If you implement the ideas presented in this book, you Will get more work done in fewer hours, with less stress, forever!

Download or read book Oxymorons written by J. D. Kleinke and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 2001 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medical economist Kleinke criticizes the United States' managed health care system as a dismal failure for consumers. Long an advocate for market-based reform in the health care he argues that today's privatized system fails to resemble a true market in any meaningful sense, with far too many layers of bureaucracy standing between the health care consumer and the direct provider, the physician. He argues for a "streamlined" plan that will remove employers from the health care insurance and will allow consumers to purchase insurance plans with non-taxed income. c. Book News Inc.

Download or read book Oxymoron and Pleonasm written by Monika Mitášová and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book contains twelve interviews focusing on the problem of critical and projective approach to architectural thinking and design discussed by leading American theorists, historians and practitioners of architecture.

Download or read book Design Research Now written by Ralf Michel and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-12-21 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Design is becoming a recognised academic discipline, and design research is the driving force behind this transformation. Design Research Now – Essays and Selected Projects charts the field of design research with introductory essays and selected research projects. The authors of the essays, all leading international design scholars, stake out positions on the most important issues of design research. They locate the significance of design research at the interface with technological development, describe what makes it a necessary ingredient of the continued development of the design disciplines, and assign it a seminal role in the relevant developments of society. The essays are supplemented by the presentation of recently completed research projects from universities in the Netherlands, the UK and Italy.

Download or read book Oxymoronica written by Dr. Mardy Grothe and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-20 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ox-y-mor-on-i-ca (OK-se-mor-ON-uh-ca) noun, plural: Any variety of tantalizing, self-contradictory statements or observations that on the surface appear false or illogical, but at a deeper level are true, often profoundly true. See also oxymoron, paradox. examples: "Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad." Victor Hugo "To lead the people, walk behind them." Lao-tzu "You'd be surprised how much it coststo look this cheap." Dolly Parton You won't find the word "oxymoronica" in any dictionary (at least not yet) because Dr. Mardy Grothe introduces it to readers in this delightful collection of 1,400 of the most provocative quotations of all time. From ancient thinkers like Confucius, Aristotle, and Saint Augustine to great writers like Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde, and G. B. Shaw to modern social observers like Woody Allen and Lily Tomlin, Oxymoronica celebrates the power and beauty of paradoxical thinking. All areas of human activity are explored, including love, sex and romance, politics, the arts, the literary life, and, of course, marriage and family life. The wise and witty observations in this book are as highly entertaining as they are intellectually nourishing and are sure to grab the attention of language lovers everywhere.

Download or read book Sophomores and Other Oxymorons written by David Lubar and published by Speak. This book was released on 2016-05 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Companion to Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie"--Cover.

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Download or read book Efficiently Inefficient written by Lasse Heje Pedersen and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Efficiently Inefficient describes the key trading strategies used by hedge funds and demystifies the secret world of active investing. Leading financial economist Lasse Heje Pedersen combines the latest research with real-world examples and interviews with top hedge fund managers to show how certain trading strategies make money - and why they sometimes don't. -- from back cover.

Download or read book Humble Calvinism written by J. A. Medders and published by . This book was released on 2019-03 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding Calvinism in our hearts as well as in our heads

Download or read book Business Ethics An Oxymoron written by KS Madhavan and published by Karur Madhavan. This book was released on with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Negrophobia and Reasonable Racism written by Jody David Armour and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tackling the ugly secret of unconscious racism in American society, this book provides specific solutions to counter this entrenched phenomenon.

Download or read book Oxymoron written by Lovemore Chinyoka and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-01-02 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life is a collection of problems waiting to be faced and solved. Living a fulfilling life can only be achieved through the recognition that the joy comes from the battles not the conquests.Our emotions are always entangled in a web matrix of mixed feelings and sensational paradox. The human mind will never exist in a continuous quantum state of consistence, sometimes we are happy and other times we are sad.Oxymoron offers a collection of short scripts by the author that addresses the different states of the mind as well as encouraging messages on how to face the reality of our not so black and white world we live in.

Download or read book Jumbo Shrimp Other Almost Perfect Oxymorons written by Warren S. Blumenfeld and published by Perigee Books. This book was released on 1986 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oxymorons, often hilarious contradictory expressions, are sure to be the next delightful word craze, and this humorous showcase presents some of the best oxymorons around--phrases such as pretty ugly, plastic glasses, and many more.

Download or read book Seriously Funny and Other Oxymorons written by Simon Brett and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2017-09-07 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Brilliant! Will make a perfect Xmas stocking filler' Bronya Ralley 'Delightful. This dip-in-anywhere book put a smile on my face from the first page . . . for everyone who likes a good chuckle' Ruth Milligan As we all know, the oxymoron is one of the great beauties of the English language. It has been defined as 'a figure of speech that juxtaposes elements that appear to be contradictory'. Famous examples would include 'bitter-sweet', 'open secret' and 'compassionate Conservatism'. Seriously Funny, and Other Oxymorons brings together a great many examples of the oxymoron genre, amusingly illustrated by Paul Thomas. The book is arranged according to various categories ranging from Popular Culture to Political Principles and Business Ethics, all covered in Simon Brett's inimitably witty style. Anyone with an 'unbiased opinion' will quickly grasp that Seriously Funny makes a 'devilishly nice' book.

Download or read book Oxymoron and Pleonasm Conversation on American Critical written by Monika Mitasova and published by Actar D, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-04-29 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monika Mitasova interviewed an influential group of current American theorists, historians and practitioners proposing critical and projective architecture, respectively, which forms the first book that brings those perspectives together to show the state of current critical and projective theory, practice and new alternative actions of designing architecture. Interviewed theorists: Kenneth Frampton, K. Michael Hays, Mark Wigley, Mary Mcleod, Beatriz Colomina, Stan Allen, Joan Ockman, Robert Somol, Sarah Whiting, Michael Speaks, Jeffrey Kipnis, Sylvia Lavin.