The COVID-19 pandemic holds at least seven lessons for the relationship between data-driven decision making, the use of artificial intelligence, and development. These are that (1) in a global crisis, the shifting value of data creates policy pitfalls; (2) predictions of crises and how they play...

The successful assimilation of ethnic minorities into Western economies is one of the biggest challenges facing the Modern World. The substantial flows of Irish, to England, provide an historical example of this process. However, this has received surprisingly little scholarly attention. We use...

I investigate the origins of the now-ubiquitous term ”Big Data," in industry and academics, in computer science and statistics/econometrics. Credit for coining the term must be shared. In particular, John Mashey and others at Silicon Graphics produced highly relevant (unpublished,...

Cover -- Half-Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Note to Reader -- Preface: Assessing Digital Society -- Digital expertise: the impact of technical progress -- From creative destruction to digital disruption -- Coincidence with historical events -- Expansion of...

The article uses an established three-dimensional conceptual framework to systematically review literature and empirical evidence related to the prerequisites, opportunities, and threats of Big Data Analysis for international development. On the one hand, the advent of Big Data delivers the...

"This book explores novel big data theories, algorithms, technologies, methodologies, and applications for driving socio-economic development and sustainable development, highlighting perspectives in terms of theories, technologies, and applications as well as big data and its technologies to...