Since the early days of social media, there has been excitement about how data traces left behind by users can be utilised for the study of human behaviour. However, researchers often analyse this data with tools that were not designed to manage large, noisy, observational sets of data found on social media. Researchers have also found that methods and statistics commonly used to provide evidence for seemingly significant scientific findings can also support nonsensical claims...
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