Three Cheers for the Empirical Muckraker
Blair Fix · 2019
Data science is all the rage right now. The data scientist uses complicated algorithms and sophisticated statistics to analyze reams of 'big data'. Don't get me wrong — I'm all for analyzing big data. But I don't want to forget about an equally important form of empirical research: muckraking . Empirical muckraking is the slow, tedious process of searching for scattered data.