Four Principles of Big Data Practice for Effective Child Welfare Decision Making

Introduction

“…In addition to the empirical inquiries, we have included two commentaries and a review of the book Big Data (Kolivoski, 2016) that presents an approachable overview of the concept of big data. One commentary considers how well-being data could be integrated into child welfare administrative data (Jonson-Reid, & Drake, 2016); the other commentary briefly summarizes four principles that underlie the effective use of administrative data by child welfare agencies for system improvement purposes (Lery, Haight, & Alpert, 2016).…”