Dealing with Big Data

2016/05/20 by Blanke, Tobias, Prescott, Andrew
#Computers and Society (cs.CY) #FOS: Computer and information sciences

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1605.06354

Abstract

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.

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