Tag: big data

Problems in deploying new digital materials and methods in social research should be understood as – perhaps primarily – challenges in reconciling diverging epistemic conceptions across fields and communities, suggests Juho Pääkkönen in his doctoral thesis “Credibility-building for social science big data”, which was examined at the University of Helsinki on November 29, 2025. This post is the lectio praecursoria presented at the public examination.