12. Back to reading, Bit by Bit
I paused efforts on an introductory course on machine learning and statistical inference after finding Professor Matthew J. Salganik’s draft book, Bit by Bit: social research in the digital age, which has been available for open peer review since summer 2016 (click on the book title to access it, and here to learn about the […]
3. Challenges & opportunities with big data
The American Evaluation Association 2015 Conference salon on big data and evaluation sent a clear message that big data is an addition to the tool box, leading to evolution in evaluation, rather than revolution against traditional methods and approaches to scientific inquiry (more detail here). Pages 4-12 of this report, from Aspen Institute’s roundtable on […]