This month’s big data newsletter includes several top-flight free resources for readers, including an article on “The social imaginaries of data activism” drawn from the journal Big Data & Society; a chapter from The SAGE Handbook of Social Media Research Methods that asks, “Big Data – Hype or Revolution?”; and a chapter from another of […]
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Continue ReadingTwo must-read blog posts and a report on the latest SAGE Ocean speaker series event are key draws in the latest big data newsletter, viewable below. The blog posts include “The Computation/Context Trade-Off?” by Laura K. Nelson, assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Northeastern University, and “Learning data science from a […]
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This month’s Big Data Newsletter from SAGE Publishing unlocks three pieces of free content, including a Spotify playlist created by Dave Beer to accompany his book, The Data Gaze. Other benefits of receiving the newsletter include a free lesson focused on intermediate skills in the Python language, and a free chapter on “Big Social Science: […]
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Continue ReadingAmong the free resources offered in this month’s Big Data newsletter are a free issue of the journal Organizational Research Methods built around the theme, “Big Data and Modern Data Analytics;” a free chapter from the ‘little green book’ Linear Regression; and a free case study on “Developing a New Method for Psychological Investigation Using […]
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Continue ReadingThis month’s big data newsletter, amid reminders about SAGE’s free beginner’s guide to R and mention of s service linking social scientists to data science specialists, includes some valuable free content. This includes two free articles, one on the locus of legitimate interpretation in big data from Big Data & Society and the other on […]
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Continue ReadingThis month’s Big Data Newsletter highlights the 4th Annual International Conference on Computational Social Science, held at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. Keynote speakers included Duncan Watts from Microsoft addressing contagion on social networks, David Lazer from Northeastern University on “The Future(s) of Computational Social Science,” and conference closer Lada Adamic from Facebook on […]
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Continue ReadingThis month’s edition of the big data newsletter includes links to one story in Die Welt asking if artificial intelligence can ever be free of bias and another story from The University Network wondering if we use our smartphones more than we think we do. The newsletter also includes a link to video of the […]
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Continue ReadingThis month’s big data newsletter opens with a description of the launch of the 2018 Summer Institute in Computational Social Science sponsored by the Russell Sage Foundation and Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and held at Duke University in mid-June.. Meanwhile, SAGE is currently working with Nesta to organise a one day event in September 2018 […]
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Continue ReadingThis month’s big data newsletter, viewable below, includes a recounting of the new Social Data Initiative that the Social Science Research Council and Facebook have launched alongside a variety of non-profit organizations. The newsletter also includes links to a trove of free accessible content, including a journal article on isomorphism through algorithms, a book chapter […]
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Continue ReadingIn this month’s big data newsletter SAGE is offering readers something free! Through SAGE Campus, the newsletter is launching a free short course on big data for social scientists. Scroll through the newsletter below to learn more about this great opportunity to try out SAGE Campus offerings and see they can help your research (and […]
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Continue ReadingIn this month’s big data newsletter, we open with a recounting of SAGE Publishing having co-hosted the first ever Social Science Foo Camp. The camp — ‘Foo’ stands for ‘Friends of O’Reilly,’ which with Facebook was also a host — is the first in a series of events that SAGE will be running as part […]
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Continue ReadingIn this edition of SAGE Publishing’s big data newsletter, a trio of free reading is on offer: a free article from the journal Big Data & Society on “Algorithms as Culture;” a free chapter from the new book Urban Analytics; and a free case study on the nexus of mixed methods and big data research. […]
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