A review of Bit by Bit: Social Research in the Digital Age, Matthew J. Salganik, Princeton University Press, 2017. Why Big Data Research is Stalled in GovernmentHowever, what is becoming standard practice among companies is still foreign in public policy. [i]In part, the slow uptake of a culture of experimentation in government is because these digital social research techniques are not without controversy, even in business. There are also questions about the limitations of using data from such micro-interventions to drive business strategy let alone policymaking. With the exception of new nudge units in the UK, Australian, US, and Singaporean governments, there has been a lack of knowledge within government of how to create these digital research experiments.

Source: Forbes February 20, 2018 20:48 UTC