Ford, H orcid.org/0000-0002-3500-9772 (2014) Big Data and Small: Collaborations between ethnographers and data scientists. Big Data & Society, 1 (2). ISSN 2053-9517
Abstract
In the past three years, Heather Ford—an ethnographer and now a PhD student—has worked on ad hoc collaborative projects around Wikipedia sources with two data scientists from Minnesota, Dave Musicant and Shilad Sen. In this essay, she talks about how the three met, how they worked together, and what they gained from the experience. Three themes became apparent through their collaboration: that data scientists and ethnographers have much in common, that their skills are complementary, and that discovering the data together rather than compartmentalizing research activities was key to their success.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | (c) The Author(s) 2014. Creative Commons CC-BY: This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (http://www.uk.sagepub.com/aboutus/ openaccess.htm) |
Keywords: | Collaboration, interdisciplinary, ethnography, data science, Big Data, methods |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Media & Communication (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 20 Mar 2018 09:08 |
Last Modified: | 20 Mar 2018 09:08 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/2053951714544337 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:119640 |