ANC Seminar - David Shaffer

Tuesday, 21st May 2024

Leverhulme Lecture on Quantitative Ethnography: Human Science in the Age of Big Data

Abstract: David Williamson Shaffer looks at the transformation of the social sciences in the age of Big Data: how to resolve the dichotomy between qualitative and quantitative methods and go beyond simple “mixtures” of methods — and how this transformation makes it possible to build meaningful and fair analyses of data about learning, culture, and human experience.

Event type: Seminar

Date: Tuesday, 21st May

Time: 11:00

Location: G.03

Speaker(s): David Shaffer

Chair/Host: Arno Onken