Big Data Research for Social Science and Social Impact

The role of administrative data in the big data revolution in social science research.

The term big data is currently a buzzword in social science, however its precise meaning is ambiguous. In this paper we focus on administrative data which is a distinctive form of big data. Exciting new opportunities for social science research will be afforded by new administrative data resources, but these are currently under appreciated by the research community. The central aim of this pape...

Querying Big Social Data

Big data poses new challenges to query answering, from computational complexity theory to query evaluation techniques. Several questions arise. What query classes can be considered tractable in the context of big data? How can we make query answering feasible on big data? What should we do about the quality of the data, the other side of big data? This paper aims to provide an overview of recen...

Big Data and Social Web

Citizenship, Social Media, and Big Data: Current and Future Research in the Social Sciences

This special issue of the Social Science Computer Review provides a sample of the latest strategies employing large data sets in social media and political communication research. The proliferation of information communication technologies, social media, and the Internet, alongside the ubiquity of high-performance computing and storage technologies, has ushered in the era of computational socia...

Computational Intelligence for Big Social Data Analysis