Big data and us : exploring the socio-cultural relationship between self-tracking, big data, and the self

• Main Author: Neo, Lucas Shao Rong
• Other Authors: Laavanya Kathiravelu
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology::Social change
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/62387
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In today’s technological landscape, organizations and individuals alike are creating immense amounts of digital data daily and are seeking to derive insights from it. This project posits that self-tracking, as a social phenomenon, is surfacing concurrent to the Big Data movement and will shift the e...