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

"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."