Facing Big Data: Making sociology relevant

Big Data and Society 2 (2) (2015)
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Working with computational methods and large textual analysis has been challenging and very rewarding—with all the ups and downs that doing empirical social research entails. In my contribution, I relate some research experiences and reflect upon data construction and the links between theory, data, and methods.

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