Dealing with Big Data

Tobias Blanke; Andrew Prescott

Dealing with Big Data

Tobias Blanke, Andrew Prescott

Digital Humanities

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Abstract

This book chapter attempts to counter anxieties in the humanities and social science about the role of big data in research by focusing on approaches which, by being firmly grounded in the traditional values of disciplines, enhance existing methods to produce fruitful research. Big data poses many methodological challenges, but these pressures should prompt scholars to pay much closer attention to methodological issues than they have in the past.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Research Methods for Reading Digital Data in the Digital Humanities
Editors	Gabriele Griffin, Matt Hayler
Publisher	Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press
Pages	184-205
Number of pages	22
ISBN (Electronic)	9781474409629
ISBN (Print)	9781474409605
Publication status	Published - 20 Jun 2016

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