Examples of using Big data sources in English and their translations into Bengali
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ideas in this chapter, I think that there are three main ways that big data sources will be most valuable for social research.
In fact, people who have worked with big data sources know that they are frequently dirty.
Even though, from the perspective of researchers, big data sources are“found,” they don't just fall from the sky.
As I'm describing these characteristics you will notice that they often arise because big data sources were not created for the purpose of research.
Another way in which researchers can use big data sources in survey research is as a sampling frame for people with specific characteristics.
In fact, people who have worked with big data sources know that they are frequently dirty.
As the work of Burke and Kraut illustrates, big data sources will not eliminate the need to ask people questions.
Population drift, usage drift, and system drift make it hard to use big data sources to study long-term trends.
To conclude, many big data sources are not representative samples from some well-defined population.
For machine learning approaches that attempt to automatically discover natural experiments inside of big data sources, see Jensen et al.
matching is a design that also benefits from big data sources.
In fact, I think that many of the challenges and opportunities created by big data sources follow from just one“W”: Why?
Rosenbaum(2015) and Hernán and Robins(2016) offer other advice for discovering useful comparisons within big data sources.
Some researchers believe that big data sources, especially those from online sources, are pristine because they are collected automatically.
To conclude, many big data sources are drifting because of changes in who is using them,
Then, I will illustrate three research strategies that can be used to successfully learn from big data sources.
Based on the ideas in this chapter, I think that there are three main ways that big data sources will be most valuable for social research.
Before concluding, I think that it is worth considering that big data sources may have an important effect on the relationship between data and theory.
Most social scientists are already familiar with the process of cleaning large-scale social survey data, but cleaning big data sources seems to be more difficult.
In the next section, we will consider the linkages between surveys and big data sources in greater detail.