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Bursting the Big Data Bubble
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Bursting the Big Data Bubble

by Jay Liebowitz
July 2014
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
351 pages
9h
English
Auerbach Publications
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109
8
inTuiTion and cRisis
leadeRship
ERIC J. MCNULTY,
LEONARDJ. MARCUS,AND
BARRY C. DORN
National Preparedness Leadership Initiative
Harvard School of Public Health and Harvard’s Kennedy
School of Government Center for Public Leadership
8.1 Introduction
Forty years ago, Russell Ackoff cautioned against equating analysis
withthought (Ackoff, 1973). Although his talk was given long before
today’s pervasive data analysis and even before most of us had ever inter-
acted with a computer, his understanding of the limits of reductionist
mechanistic thinking that characterized the Industrial Age is at the heart
of the battle between data-driven and intuition-based decision making.
Do we make the best decisions by breaking the whole down into ever-
smal
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