I don’t call myself a “big data” analyst
- but when a call went out seeking authors for various topics for the Encyclopedia of Big Data
- I volunteered to write two articles. Here are the details.
The first article I wrote was about the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). I used to work at CDC. To be fair
- I did not work on any of the things that I wrote about in the encyclopedia entry
- but I did know some of the people who did work on those big data systems. I have also used many CDC data sets in my research at Children’s Mercy Hospital.
When I completed my article
- I noticed that no one had volunteered yet to write an article about the U.S. Census Bureau. This was a big omission
- in my opinion
- so I volunteered to write that article also. There are probably others who could have written a much better article about the Census Bureau
- but if they weren’t volunteering
- then better me than no one.
The citations for my two articles are
Simon S.D. (2018) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In: Schintler L.
- McNeely C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Big Data. Springer
- Cham
Simon S.D. (2018) Census Bureau (U.S.). In: Schintler L.
- McNeely C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Big Data. Springer
- Cham
These articles are probably behind a pay wall
- but I don’t have enough leverage to ask for open source publication of my work. I may be able to self-archive this work
- but I have to investigate my options carefully. The licensing terms for authors are quite detailed.