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In defense of forensic social science

Author(s) -

Amir Goldberg

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

big data and society

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.244

H-Index - 37

ISSN - 2053-9517

DOI - 10.1177/2053951715601145

Subject(s) - big data , data science , digital forensics , forensic science , sociology , computer science , epistemology , computer security , history , archaeology , data mining , philosophy

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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