Three fallacies of digital footprints
“Digital footprints” is an attractive, useful, and increasingly popular metaphor for thinking about Big Data. In this essay, I elaborate on this metaphor to highlight three relatively basic fallacies in the way we tend to think about Big Data: first, that they contain information on complete populat...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2015-11-01
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Series: | Big Data & Society |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1177/2053951715602496 |