'What Stays in Vegas' and 'Dataclysm'

By Joshua Kim. What Stays in Vegas: The World of Personal Data—Lifeblood of Big Business—and the End of Privacy as We Know It... by Adam Tanner
Published in September of 2014
Dataclysm: Who We Are (When We Think No One's Looking) by Christian Rudder 
Published in September of 2014.
What do we mean when we talk about big data in higher ed?  What is the deal with putting the qualifier “big” before “data”? Was data ever small? Does talking about BIG DATA make us sound somehow more digitally clued-in?  Academics who think in platforms and ecosystems rather than only in credits and classes?  Like we would be as comfortable at a TED Talk as a Convocation, at SXSW as the ASA?
My approach to achieve Big Data academic cool standing is to try to understand big data in adjacent industries. Read more...