Bit by Bit: Social Research in the Digital Age

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By Matthew J. Salganik

Published Sept. 5, 2017

Social media, mobile phones, and other new technology have enabled us to collect and process data about human behavior on a scale never before imagined. Bit by Bit (Princeton University Press) is Matthew Salganik’s blueprint for data scientists and social scientists to use this big data to inform and enhance the way we do sociology.

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