• DocumentCode
    12677
  • Title

    The Human and Ethical Aspects of Big Data

  • Author

    Booch, Grady

  • Author_Institution
    IBM
  • Volume
    31
  • Issue
    1
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    Jan.-Feb. 2014
  • Firstpage
    20
  • Lastpage
    22
  • Abstract
    Every line of code represents a moral decision; every bit of data collected, analyzed, and visualized has moral implications. The Web extra at http://youtu.be/iY7mU1mtQ08 is an audio podcast of author Grady Booch reading his On Computing column, in which he discusses how every line of code represents a moral decision and how every bit of data collected, analyzed, and visualized has moral implications.
  • Keywords
    Big data; Ethics; Human factors; Philosophical considerations; Privacy; big data; ethics; morality;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Software, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0740-7459
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MS.2014.16
  • Filename
    6750430