"Raw Data" Is an Oxymoron
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TL;DR
This book's essays describe eight episodes in the history of data from the predigital to the digital, addressing such issues as the ways that different kinds of data and different domains of inquiry are mutually defining; how data are variously "cooked" in the processes of their collection and use; and conflicts over what can be "reduced" to data.
Abstract
We live in the era of Big Data, with storage and transmission capacity measured not just in terabytes but in petabytes (where peta- denotes a quadrillon, or a thousand trillon). Data collection is constant and even insidious, with every click and every "like" stored somewhere for something.