Impact of Social Sciences – “The Big Data rich and the Big Data poor”: the new digital divide raises questions about future academic research

lterrat's bookmarks 2016-11-22

Summary:

"Data is being created faster than ever before. However, as Kate Metzlerexplains, limited access to this big data is creating a digital divide between large companies and the broader scholarly community. To compound this problem, there is also a big data analysis skills gap that further hinders the progress of social science. Without access to these datasets or the expertise to analyse them, research is confronted with a replication crisis and is vulnerable to commercial motivations."

Link:

http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2016/11/22/the-big-data-rich-and-the-big-data-poor-the-new-digital-divide-raises-questions-about-future-academic-research/

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11/22/2016, 17:21

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11/22/2016, 12:21