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SUMMARY:Distinguished Lecture Series in Digital Humanities: Why Big Data n
 eeds Big Theory in Social Sciences
DTSTART:20160517T140000
DTEND:20160517T150000
DTSTAMP:20260413T204206Z
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CATEGORIES:Miscellaneous
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Dominique Boullier\n\nWith Big Data and Machine Learning
 \, we entered a new  quantification era  and Social Sciences are facin
 g major challenges such as "the end of theory" and the "solutionist" expec
 tations.  \n\nThe lecture will however tell a different story where soc
 ial sciences can reinvent themselves as sciences of replications\, using a
  selected set of algorithms and controlling the validity of the digital tr
 aces that are massively produced and made accessible by platforms.\n\n"Soc
 iety" or "Opinion" rely on their own set of quantification devices and met
 hods.\n\nDigital networks allow us to supplement these well-established pa
 radigms by a third generation of social sciences\, where "Replications" fo
 cus on emergence\, propagation and events.
LOCATION:BC 420 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==BC%20420
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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