“Data is the new oil.” Clive Humby, mathematician and architect of Tesco’s Clubcard, is credited with saying this first in 2006, and it’s been repeated numerous times in the last decade. The comparison between data and oil refers to its value being extracted through refinement; or in the case of data, through analysis. Unlike oil, […]
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The authors of a new white paper on trends in big data research in the social sciences posited that because ‘big data’ is new, interdisciplinary and, well, big, that it would present “unique problems” to researchers. In fact, a lot of the biggest problems faced by researches will ring true in any academic endeavor –elusive […]
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When natural scientists grapple with big data, they almost inevitably receive raw information from instruments that were designed to provide them the material they wanted in a format for which they had prepared. Social and behavioral scientists, in contrast, are often tapping data flows designed by other people – entrepreneurs and government are key examples […]
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In this second installment of the monthly Big Data and social research newsletter from SAGE, we highlight a new white paper on who in social science is using big data and computational techniqies, and who would like to but isn’t. The newsletter is viewable and scollable below; if you’d like to receive the newsletter in […]
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The era of analyzing big data to research issues in social science is among us. Given that the era only really arrived with the advent of the data itself, and those pools of data – sources such as social media, unstructured text, digital sensors, financial and administrative transactions — have only recently become widely available […]
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