Big Data and Social Science

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Soliciting feedback and improvement suggestions for the second edition

We are currently working on a 2nd edition of the book. Please give us suggestions for improvements and additional content by creating a github issue in this repository.

Current status of chapters for 2nd edition

1. Intro: We need to update the introduction and graph
2. APIs and Scraping: add website link for submitting examples. Need to update the notebooks and insert link/reference to it in section 2.6 (and possibly other places). Cameron is doing that right now.
3. Record Linkage: add website link for submitting examples. Possibly update ML section
4. Databases:
5. Parallel:
6. Vizualization:
7. Machine Learning: small todos at the top of the chapter
8. Text: needs examples in the table
9. Networks:
10. Errors: small todos at the top of the chapter
11. Bias: add references
12. Privacy: small todos at the top of the chapter
13. Notebooks: update data set for bias