The materials gathered here assist the WE1S project team in thinking about broader issues in computational text analysis, rather than specific methods.
Critical Data Studies
(readings related to understanding the epistemic and practical issues in working with and interpreting quantitative data)
- Symons, J., and R. Alvarado. “Can We Trust Big Data? Applying Philosophy of Science to Software.” Big Data & Society 3, no. 2 (September 2, 2016). doi:10.1177/2053951716664747. <http://bds.sagepub.com/content/3/2/2053951716664747>. Provides a good overview of the literature of Critical Data Studies, as well as the basic epistemological approaches, though largely from a scientific/social-scientific point of view.
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