Big Data, new epistemologies and paradigm shifts

Big Data and Society

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Kitchin, Rob ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Big Data; computational social sciences; data analytics; data driven science; digital humanities; end of theory; epistemology; paradigms

Indexed keywords

EID: 85073682542     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20539517     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/2053951714528481     Document Type: Article

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