Stories and Big Data: The Possibility of Narrative Explanations at Scale
Philosophy of the Social Sciences
Published online on January 22, 2026
Abstract
Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Volume 56, Issue 2, Page 116-133, March 2026.
It has been suggested that computational tools can enable us to identify narratives in large data sets, and that we can use those narratives to facilitate social science research at scale in the same way as distant reading techniques facilitate literary ...
It has been suggested that computational tools can enable us to identify narratives in large data sets, and that we can use those narratives to facilitate social science research at scale in the same way as distant reading techniques facilitate literary ...