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Big data and open data promise tremendous advances. But the media hype ignores the difficulties and the risks associated with this promise. Beginning with the observation that people want answers to questions, not simply data, I explore some of the difficulties and risks which lie in the path of realising the opportunities.
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Hand, D.J. (2013). Data, Not Dogma: Big Data, Open Data, and the Opportunities Ahead. In: Tucker, A., Höppner, F., Siebes, A., Swift, S. (eds) Advances in Intelligent Data Analysis XII. IDA 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8207. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41398-8_1
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