On the London School of Economics' Impact of Social Sciences blog, Kate Metzler, Head of Methods Innovation at SAGE Publishing, writes on the 'digital divide' that is arising as a side-effect of developments in data analysis. Who gets access to all this data we’re producing through our increasingly networked and digital lives, and for what purpose?
"Limited access to this big data is creating a digital divide between large companies and the broader scholarly community. To compound this problem, there is also a big data analysis skills gap that further hinders the progress of social science. Without access to these datasets or the expertise to analyse them, research is confronted with a replication crisis and is vulnerable to commercial motivations."
The full article is available on the LSE Impact of Social Sciences blog.