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BIG DATA & SOCIETY
Volume 2, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/2053951715601145
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Forensic social science; hypothesis testing; Big Data; machine learning; abductive reasoning; statistics
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Like the navigation tools that freed ancient sailors from the need to stay close to the shoreline-eventually affording the discovery of new worlds-Big Data might open us up to new sociological possibilities by freeing us from the shackles of hypothesis testing. But for that to happen we need forensic social science: the careful compilation of evidence from unstructured digital traces as a means to generate new theories.
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