4 Big Data and Intelligence in Practice
This chapter outlines the impact of big data on intelligence as knowledge, activities and organisations in Australia. Intelligence in practice can be thought of in three ways, sometimes simultaneously (Lowenthal 2012, p. 9), as knowledge, as an organisation and as either an activity (Kent 1966) or product (Lowenthal 2012). These rough categories also emerged within the data. This chapter examines how big data is changing intelligence as knowledge, including changes to the kinds of knowledge used for intelligence and gaps in knowledge used for intelligence, requiring a stronger focus on the purpose of intelligence. It goes on to demonstrate how big data is changing where ...
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