Facing Big Data: Making sociology relevant

Big Data and Society

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2015, Pages

  Mützel, Sophie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LUCERNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Big Data; computational social science; data construction; sociology; textual analysis; topic modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 85074204022     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20539517     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/2053951715599179     Document Type: Note

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