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The N-gram and the Book “Uncharted: Big Data as a Lens on Human Culture”

Between 2007 and 2010, graduate students Erez Aiden, Jean-Baptiste Michel and Yuan…

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Gigascience: A Science Journal That Provides Full Data Sets

A few weeks ago I visited the Hong Kong headquarters of the…

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Data Infrastructures

It is obvious to say that big data rely on computers. It…

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Following the Data

In this post I want to explore a method for helping us…

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Why Big Data Requires the Social Sciences

This is the first in a series of posts that will examine…

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