Between 2007 and 2010, graduate students Erez Aiden, Jean-Baptiste Michel and Yuan Shen developed a tool for analyzing Google’s digitized books. Known as the N-gram viewer, their…
A few weeks ago I visited the Hong Kong headquarters of the biomedical journal, Gigascience. The journal was established in 2012 with funding from the Chinese company…
It is obvious to say that big data rely on computers. It would be practically impossible to implement big data algorithms with pencil and paper – it…
In this post I want to explore a method for helping us to better understand big data and what it is telling us. I call this method…
This is the first in a series of posts that will examine the big data phenomenon from the point of view of the social sciences (I am…
