2022 SSRC Lecture: Why Big Data Science Will Need Qualitative Research

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    Please join us for the 2022 SSRC Katznelson Fellow Lecture featuring Mario Small, Quetelet Professor of Social Science at Columbia University, who will speak on Why Big Data Science Will Need Qualitative Research: A Case on Racial Inequality in Financial Access, followed by a response from Sandra Susan Smith, Daniel & Florence Guggenheim Professor of Criminal Justice, Harvard Kennedy School, Director, Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy.

    About the lecture:

    The data revolution in social science has inspired researchers to use massive, newly available datasets from private and public sources to understand social phenomena. The trend may suggest to some that small-scale qualitative networks will eventually become obsolete. Dr. Mario Small, Quetelet Professor of Social Science at Columbia University, argues that the data revolution has made qualitative research more essential to ensure that “big data” result in real science. In this lecture, Professor Small will illustrate this point based on a study using Google Maps data and running more than 6 million queries to understand racial inequality in access to financial services across US cities. The study makes clear that fully unlocking the potential of large-scale data will require qualitative methods.

    Register: https://ssrc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_oJOohU54RpyTD2TUXd07LQ

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