Background From the last decade, data mining techniques, employed in particular in customer relationship management, have assumed a key role in the profitability and operations of companies. To support small and medium companies (SMEs), several innovative and continuously improving tools have...

Online software engineering repositories like GitHub are great resources of socio-technical data about software development process. GitHub as a large-scale social coding environment contains various types of open source projects. Selecting a suitable project from a developer's perspective is...

This paper is a partial genealogy of the data scientist, meant as a contribution to understanding how both big data and the subject who mines it have come to be. It adds to the growing criticism of data mining by considering how big data might be used to manage the very workers who ostensibly...