What does big data offer for computational social science

Empirical methods

Computer simulations

Integrated induction

Theoretical analysis

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Real-time fusion

No sampling

Data-fusion

Digital footprint

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Companies had the funds to invent it

A series of serendipitous coincidences

National Security Agencies had the funds to invent it

Massive data allowed machines to learn from data

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Question 2

In lecture, we identified a list of several characteristics of “big data”. Which one was NOT part of our characterization?

1 / 1 point

Data is so comprehensive and well-organized that one single source is enough

Recorded observations are often readily and abundantly available

We work with complementary data sources and patch them together

Machine intelligence is often the only way to help us analyzing the data

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