A special Economist report on managing information

This week’s Economist has a great special feature report with implications for all types of libraries:

A special report on managing information
Data, data everywhere
Information has gone from scarce to superabundant. That brings huge new benefits, says Kenneth Cukier (interviewed here)—but also big headaches

All too much: Monstrous amounts of data

A different game: Information is transforming traditional businesses

Clicking for gold: How internet companies profit from data on the web

The open society: Governments are letting in the light

Show me: New ways of visualising data

Needle in a haystack: The uses of information about information

New rules for big data: Regulators are having to rethink their brief

Handling the cornucopia: the best way to deal with all that information is to use machines. But they need watching

Sources and acknowledgments

As usual, it is the great Economist research and sources are cited.

Stephen