On minorities and outliers: The case for making Big Data small
In this essay, I make the case for choosing to examine small subsets of Big Data datasets—making big data small. Big Data allows us to produce summaries of human behavior at a scale never before possible. But in the push to produce these summaries, we risk losing sight of a secondary but equally imp...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2014-07-01
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Series: | Big Data & Society |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1177/2053951714540613 |