University of Minnesota’s LIL Seminar Series: Human Science in the Age of Big Data with Dr. David Williamson Shaffer

University of Minnesota’s LIL Seminar Series: Human Science in the Age of Big Data with Dr. David Williamson Shaffer


The full video is now available for Dr. David Shaffer’s recent talk on the modern transformation of human science in Big Data as part of the Learning Informatics Lab (LIL) Seminar Series hosted by the University of Minnesota!

In this talk, David takes a deep dive into the transformative landscape of social sciences in the age of Big Data through a Quantitative Ethnography lens. Learn how innovative approaches to analyzing human behavior, like ENA, have reshaped the old dichotomy of qualitative and quantitative methods in thinking about data analysis, and how this process has enhanced our understanding of Big Data’s influence on human science as a result.


Check out the full seminar video