2016/05/20 by Tobias Blanke, Blanke, Tobias, Andrew Prescott +1
Computer Science · Decision Sciences · Social Sciences · #Big Data Technologies and Applications #Computational and Text Analysis Methods #Computers and Society (cs.CY) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #cs.CY
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1605.06354
arxiv created 2016/05/20 · openalex publication_date 2016/05/20 · arxiv updated 2016/05/23 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
This book chapter attempts to counter anxieties in the humanities and social science about the role of big data in research by focusing on approaches which, by being firmly grounded in the traditional values of disciplines, enhance existing methods to produce fruitful research. Big data poses many methodological challenges, but these pressures should prompt scholars to pay much closer attention to methodological issues than they have in the past.