1.7 Content & Objectives

• See toc on the left!
• Questions: What is Big Data? What are new forms of data? How does Big Data transform the social sciences? What skills do we need in the age of Big Data?
• Repeat basic concepts: Measurement, ‘distributional view of data’ etc.
• Gain visual understanding of data
• Capture & collection, storage, curation (data management), analysis of Big Data
• Tools: R, Rstudio, Plotly (see course script of visualization course)