Big data
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https://doi.org/10.47854/anthropen.v1i1.52071Keywords:
Algorythms, Knowledge, DataAbstract
Big data refers to a mode of collecting and analyzing voluminous data, but above all to a relationship to knowledge characterized by an emphasis on the discovery of correlations and the prediction of the future. Big data raises important social and political issues, which make it a privileged object of critical analysis. But big data also provokes a reflection on anthropological practice, its epistemological status and the possibilities (or not) of interdisciplinary collaboration.
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