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title: "Big Data and Social Science"
author: "Ian Foster, Rayid Ghani, Ron S. Jarmin, Frauke Kreuter and Julia Lane"
date: ""
tags: [Social Science, Statistics]
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Big Data and Social Science [...] The class on which this book is based was created in response to a very real challenge: how to introduce new ideas and methodologies about economic and social measurement into a workplace focused on producing high-quality statistics. Since the first edition of this book came out we have been fortunate to train over 450 participants in the Applied Data Analytics classes, resulting in increased data analytics capacity, both in terms of human and technical resources. What we learned in delivering these classes greatly influenced the 2nd edition. We also added an  ...
