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Putting Big Data to Big Use
News
December 14, 2017

Putting Big Data to Big Use

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No Longer Giving Away the Farm, Data Sharing Creates Industry-Wide Results
Communication
June 30, 2017

No Longer Giving Away the Farm, Data Sharing Creates Industry-Wide Results

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Making Sense of Society: Alison Harper
Career
March 30, 2017

Making Sense of Society: Alison Harper

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Gary King on Big Data Analysis
Social Science Bites
March 1, 2017

Gary King on Big Data Analysis

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Sandy Pentland on Social Physics

Sandy Pentland on Social Physics

In this Social Science Bites podcast, MIT’s Sandy Pentland tells interviewer Dave Edmonds about the origins of social physics in the barren days before the advent of widespread good data and solid statistical methods and how it blossomed as both a field and for Pentland’s own research.

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How Will Big Data Affect Evolution of Social Science?

How Will Big Data Affect Evolution of Social Science?

How will social science research and teaching evolve to meet the challenges and opportunities big data creates? How can we bring down barriers to make this new computational social science accessible for all social researchers? That was the subject of a panel discussion at last month’s ESRC Festival of Social Sciences 2016.

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Report: Who Is Doing Computational Social Science

Report: Who Is Doing Computational Social Science

SAGE Publishing surveyed social scientists around the world to learn more about who engages in research using ‘big data,’ and what challenges they face as well as the barriers facing those who are interested in conducting computational social science going forward.

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Who is Doing Big Data: A SAGE Survey

Who is Doing Big Data: A SAGE Survey

A new survey shoots down the idea that early-career researchers aresomehow more likely to be digital natives and therefore more apt to conduct computational social science than those whose PhDs were issued more than a decade ago.

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Watch Gary King: Do We Need a Big Data Treaty?

Watch Gary King: Do We Need a Big Data Treaty?

Political scientists Gary King has called on the policymakers and government officials in the audience to consider enacting a ‘treaty’ on the collection, retention, access and sharing of big data that could serve the needs of the academic world, the commercial world and government while protecting the interests of the public.

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Use Qualitative Methods In Mining the Data Gold Rush

Use Qualitative Methods In Mining the Data Gold Rush

Mylynn Felt, author of a popular paper on social media and the social sciences, hopes to see a growing blend of established qualitative techniques with newly emerging big data research methods in future social science work.

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Measuring the Damage Surveillance Does to Democracy

Measuring the Damage Surveillance Does to Democracy

Even if you say you don’t mind the government knowing what you do on social media, recent research suggests you tamp down your own opinions when reminded of the possibility of being found out.

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Computers Broke It. Computers Can Fix It

Computers Broke It. Computers Can Fix It

Computers have revolutionized academic research – and at the same time created a new crop of problems. But, suggests Ben Marwick, computers can also help address some of the challenges they have created.

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