Big data, little data, no data scholarship in the networked world

• Main Author: Borgman, Christine L. 1951- (Author)
• Format: Unknown
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts The MIT Press 2015
• Subjects: Communication in learning and scholarship > Technological innovations; Research > Methodology; Research > Data processin; Information technology; Information storage and retrieval systems; Cyberinfrastructure
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• Physical Description: xxv, 383 pages 24 cm
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-360) and index
• ISBN: 9780262028561

"Big Data" is on the covers of Science, Nature, the Economist, and Wired magazines, on the front pages of the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times. But despite the media hyperbole, as Christine Borgman points out in this examination of data and scholarly research, having the right data is usually better than having more data; little data can be just as valuable as big data. In many cases, there are no data -- because relevant data don't exist, cannot be found, or are not available. Moreover, data sharing is difficult, incentives to do so are minimal, and data practices vary widely across disciplines.