Software Development using AI Supercharged Code-free Tools: Necessary Skills for Tech-driven Environments

Abstract

Researchers in the humanities and social sciences avoid exploration of certain questions for lack of skills in developing software and computational tools needed. At best, they adapt tools developed for other purposes, at worst they recoil from research tasks for lack of tools to pursue those questions. Although technology permeates every facet of life today, with application development and use predicted to increase exponentially, software development is still not a foreground issue in the humanities and social sciences. It is imperative that scholars develop skills in application development to answer unique research questions. Humanities and social sciences need customizable software to tap into idiosyncrasies of research subjects, to explore difficult or time-consuming questions by analyzing text at scale or by deploying computational power to bring new insights to research questions. Scholars need to articulate questions they want to answer, isolate, and codify elements constituting data then enhancing research with software far more than worrying about writing code. No code development platforms help in faster application development with very little programming knowledge. Advancements in graphical user interfaces, API integrations supercharged with Artificial Intelligence capabilities, make easy-to-develop no code software powerful to meet unique research needs in humanities and social science research.