{"id":92,"date":"2015-04-03T03:00:54","date_gmt":"2015-04-03T08:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/methods\/?p=92"},"modified":"2017-06-29T10:35:53","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T15:35:53","slug":"daniel-sui-on-the-methodological-advantages-and-limitations-of-big-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/methods\/2015\/04\/03\/daniel-sui-on-the-methodological-advantages-and-limitations-of-big-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Sui on the Methodological Advantages and Limitations of Big Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode, guest host\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/sociology.uga.edu\/node\/403\">Sarah Shannon<\/a>\u00a0interviews\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/geography.osu.edu\/people\/sui.10\">Daniel Sui<\/a>, Chair of the Department of Geography\u00a0and Distinguished Professor of Social and Behavioral Science at The Ohio State University. Daniel has published extensively on the use of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aaai.org\/ocs\/index.php\/ICWSM\/ICWSM11\/paper\/viewFile\/2783\/3292\">volunteered geographic information<\/a> as well as the use of social media as a new data source for geographic and social science research. He joins us to share his thoughts on big data, the methodological challenges, and the methodological advantages.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIn terms of the applications of big data, it is limited by only your imagination. That is why big data has attracted interest by industry, government agencies all over the world, and, of course, academics and scholarly researchers.\u201d<br \/>\n&#8211;<\/em>Daniel Sui-<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_2134\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-92-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/files.thesocietypages.org\/downloads\/GMAC9_Sui_on_Big_Data.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/files.thesocietypages.org\/downloads\/GMAC9_Sui_on_Big_Data.mp3\">http:\/\/files.thesocietypages.org\/downloads\/GMAC9_Sui_on_Big_Data.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/files.thesocietypages.org\/downloads\/GMAC9_Sui_on_Big_Data.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/methods\/?powerpress_pinw=92-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/files.thesocietypages.org\/downloads\/GMAC9_Sui_on_Big_Data.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"GMAC9_Sui_on_Big_Data.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><!--powerpress_player-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode, guest host\u00a0Sarah Shannon\u00a0interviews\u00a0Daniel Sui, Chair of the Department of Geography\u00a0and Distinguished Professor of Social and Behavioral Science at The Ohio State University. Daniel has published extensively on the use of volunteered geographic information as well as the use of social media as a new data source for geographic and social science research. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":971,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34730,34732],"tags":[13319,3349],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-explanatory-quantitative","category-methodological-innovations","tag-big-data","tag-quantitative"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/methods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/methods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/methods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/methods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/971"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/methods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/methods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/methods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions\/100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/methods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/methods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/methods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}