Theory and tools in the age of big data
Back in February, I had the privilege of attending Social Science Foo Camp, a flexible-schedule conference hosted in part by SAGE at Facebook HQ where questions of progress in the age of Big Data were a major topic of discussion. What I found most insightful about these conversations is how using or advocating for Big Data is one thing, but making sense of it in the context of an established discipline to do science and scholarship is quite another.
Social Science Foo Camp 2019
The second annual Social Science Foo Camp took place at Facebook’s headquarters in Menlo Park at the start of this month, convening an eclectic mix of more than 200 social scientists, technologists, funders, policy makers, businesspeople and writers.
Video snapshots from Social Science Foo Camp
Watch these short videos as leading academics present at this year’s inaugural Social Science Foo Camp discuss the opportunities and challenges presented by big data and the move to more computational methods.
Ignorance and interdisciplinary work: field notes from the Social Science Foo Camp
The first-ever “Social Science FOO Camp” was held a couple of weeks ago at the headquarters of Facebook in Menlo Park, California
The first ever Soc Sci Foo: social media, fake news, AI & much more
The first ever Social Science Foo Camp took place earlier this month, co-hosted by SAGE, O’Reilly Media and Facebook.