Ensuring the Data Rich Future of the Social Sciences

Ensuring the Data Rich Future of the Social Sciences

Citation:

King, Gary. "Ensuring the Data Rich Future of the Social Sciences." Science 331, no. 11 February (2011): 719-721. copy at http://j.mp/mw64M8

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Abstract:

Massive increases in the availability of informative social science data are making dramatic progress possible in analyzing, understanding, and addressing many major societal problems. Yet the same forces pose severe challenges to the scientific infrastructure supporting data sharing, data management, informatics, statistical methodology, and research ethics and policy, and these are collectively holding back progress. I address these changes and challenges and suggest what can be done.

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http://www.sciencemag.org/content/331/6018/719.full