Database of dreams : the lost quest to catalog humanity
Bibliographie
- Auteurs : Lemov Rebecca ;
- Editeurs : New Haven [etc.] Yale University Press ;
- Date d'édition : [2015]
- ISBN : 978-0-300-20952-5, 0-300-20952-5
- Sujets : Banques de données -- Histoire, Exploration de données, Catégorisation (psychologie), Données massives, Kaplan, Bert -- Critique et interprétation
- Langue(s) : Anglais
- Description matérielle : 1 vol. (xii, 354 p.), : Jaquette ill. en coul., 25 cm
- Pays de publication : États-Unis
Notes
Bibliogr. p. 261-335. Index
Résumé
Résumé éditeur : 'Just a few years before the dawn of the digital age, Harvard psychologist Bert Kaplan set out to build the largest database of sociological information ever assembled. It was the mid-1950s, and social scientists were entranced by the human insights promised by Rorschach tests and other innovative scientific protocols. Kaplan, along with anthropologist A.I. Hallowell and a team of researchers, sought out a varied range of non-European subjects among remote and largely non-literate peoples around the globe. Recording their dreams, stories, and innermost thoughts in a vast database, Kaplan envisioned future researchers accessing the data through the cutting-edge Readex machine. Almost immediately, however, technological developments and the obsolescence of the theoretical framework rendered the project irrelevant, and eventually it was forgotten ... In a scrupulously researched and captivating new book, Rebecca Lemov recounts the story of Kaplan's quest and brings to light an informative and disturbing chapter in the prehistory of Big Data.'