Big data y ciencias sociales. Una mirada comparativa a las publicaciones de antropología, sociología y trabajo social

  1. Estrella Gualda Caballero 1
  2. Alba Taboada Villamarín
  3. Carolina Rebollo Díaz
  1. 1 Universidad de Huelva
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    Universidad de Huelva

    Huelva, España

    ROR https://ror.org/03a1kt624

Journal:
Gazeta de antropología

ISSN: 0214-7564 2340-2792

Year of publication: 2023

Issue Title: 40 años (1982-2022) de Gazeta de Antropología

Issue: 39

Type: Article

More publications in: Gazeta de antropología

Abstract

This article reviews the international bibliography on big data. Comparatively, it explores the evolution, characteristics and themes of the research on this topic that falls within Anthropology, Sociology and Social Work. Quantitative methods are used for the description. Also, we employed an analytical strategy of unsupervised machine learning to identify and group the main themes of the articles. The results confirm that interest in big data has reached sociology before anthropology or social work. Likewise, inter and multidisciplinary publications on big data in these disciplines are highlighted. Also, from the topic modeling analysis, 13 clusters emerged. The most important were those corresponding to publications on social networks, epistemology, methodology and implications of big data, big data and society, health, and machine learning.

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