Big data and social science : data science methods and tools for research and practice /

Big data and social science : data science methods and tools for research and practice / edited by Ian Foster, Rayid Ghani, Ron S. Jarmin, Frauke Kreuter and Julia Lane. - Second edition. - pages cm. - Chapman and Hall/CRC statistics in the social and behavioural sciences .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"This classroom-tested book fills a major gap in graduate- and professional-level data science and social science education. It can be used to train a new generation of social data scientists to tackle real-world problems and improve the skills and competencies of applied social scientists and public policy practitioners. It empowers you to use the massive and rapidly growing amounts of available data to interpret economic and social activities in a scientific and rigorous manner"--

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Social sciences--Data processing.
Social sciences--Statistical methods.
Data mining.
Big data.

H61.3 / .B55 2021

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