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...

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 book explores the complex value and governance issues that arise as a consequence of the big data phenomenon and provides examples of best practices found in organizations concerning teaching and learning in academia and the business-industrial environment. It also investigates improving...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate big data and knowledge management in the context of so-called cognitive systems, with a particular focus on IBM’s Watson as a case to illustrate both an emerging form of knowledge management and how firms are analyzing big data to generate knowledge...