University of Washington Seattle Campus Big Data Articles Discussion

After reading the resulting PNAS article what is your take away? Does this tell us about the predictability of social science questions? What does this tell us about traditional data collection versus Observational data from digital platforms? What is your take away on the next steps?

reading:

• 08 Week – Selganik PNAS.pdf
• 08 Week – computational social science.pdf
• 08 Week – critical questions for big data.pdf
• 08 Week – Reinventing Society in the Wake of Big Data.pdf
• 08 Week – Were not going back to normal.pdf
• 08 Week – Big Data Isn’t a Concept — It’s a Problem to Solve.pdf

Write reading response about 300-500 words.

You dont need the read through articles carefully, just getting the main points of them is enough.