Big data has a lot of information about our health, but is that helpful to us in meaningful ways, reports the London School of Economics.

With more and more information about us available electronically and online, the latest episode of the LSE iQ podcast asks, ‘Is big data good for our health?’ 

According to the University of Virginia, big data can help understand how American’s individualism is harmful during Covid-19.

To understand America’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, researchers started with data from more than 200 years ago – at the American frontier.

Social scientists are beginning to explore how the massive amount of data collected by social media platforms can be utilized in their research, reports Nature. 

Elizaveta Sivak spent nearly a decade training as a sociologist. Then, in the middle of a research project, she realized that she needed to head back to school.