Boullier D. (2019) Replications in quantitative and qualitative methods: a new era for commensurable digital social sciences (to be published)

  Social sciences were built from comparison methods assembling field works and data, either quantitative or qualitative. Big Data offers new opportunities to extend this requirement to build commensurable data sets. The paper tells the story of the two previous quantification eras (census and polls) in order to demonstrate the need for a new agency […]