On minorities and outliers: The case for making Big Data small

In this essay, I make the case for choosing to examine small subsets of Big Data datasets—making big data small. Big Data allows us to produce summaries of human behavior at a scale never before possible. But in the push to produce these summaries, we risk losing sight of a secondary but equally imp...

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Main Author: Brooke Foucault Welles
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2014-07-01
Series:Big Data & Society
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/2053951714540613

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