Does ‘bigger’ mean ‘better’? Pitfalls and shortcuts associated with big data for social research

By Paolo Giardullo. 2015

21 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: General Social Sciences, Safety Research, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

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In General Social Sciences

1. Carlos Castillo

In Safety Research

1. Alexandra Olteanu
2. Carlos Castillo
3. Fernando Diaz
4. Emre Kıcıman

In Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

1. Alexandra Olteanu
2. Fernando Diaz
3. Carlos Castillo
4. Emre Kıcıman
5. Muhammad Imran

Citations in the corpus

• Social Data: Biases, Methodological Pitfalls, and Ethical Boundaries (2019, background): “Indeed, such claims were debunked by many critics ( boyd and Crawford, 2012; Harford, 2014; Lazer et al., 2014; Giardullo, 2015; Hargittai, 2015), who emphasize that they ignore, among others, that size alone does not necessarily make the data better (boyd and Crawford, 2012) as “there are a lot of…”