“The Big Data rich and the Big Data poor”: the new digital divide raises questions about future academic research

Metzler, Kate (2016) “The Big Data rich and the Big Data poor”: the new digital divide raises questions about future academic research. Impact of Social Sciences Blog (22 Nov 2016). Website.

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Data is being created faster than ever before. However, as Kate Metzler explains, 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.

Item Type:	Online resource (Website)
Official URL:	http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences
Additional Information:	© 2016 The Author(s) CC BY 3.0
Divisions:	LSE
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
Date Deposited:	22 Mar 2017 14:47
Last Modified:	15 Sep 2023 20:27
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/70260

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