Big Data – Big Deal or Bigger Deal Breaker: Sifting Through the Hype to Uncover Quality and Conundrums with Modern Data Sources

This course will offer an overview of big data types and sources and discuss their potential for survey and social science research (social media data, digital trace data, administrative data and sensor data through a total data quality lens). Presenters will address quality issues with each type of data, possible error frameworks to use in working with these specific data types and discuss ways to quantity data quality through a collection of metrics. Prereq – Familiarity with modern data sources.

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