Big Data and Social Science

by Sudha Menon

Big Data and Social Science discusses about how big data and social science can be employed in a system. This book comprises topics and explanations about types of big data, different big data systems and type of datasets that are considered big data. This book also sheds light on social science in aspect of big data, the web and data as well as computational social science. Readers are also given insights about topics such as necessities of computational social sciences, necessary skills for computational social science and the importance of computational social science. Discussions about text analysis in the world of big data and information visualization are also laid down in a simple manner.

290 pages, Hardcover

Published November 1, 2019

About the author

Sudha Menon is a journalist with over two decades of experience ín news and feature Writing. She has Worked in some of India’s prominent newspapers, including The Independent (The Times Group), The Hindu Business Line (The Hindu Group), and Mint (HT Media in exclusive agreement with Wall Street Journal).