An engaging, accessible and long overdue documentary recently shown on the BBC:
Tag Archive for ‘data science’
Big Data and New Skills
A panel on the challenge of big data which took place at the International Sociological Association’s Logic & Methodologies conference. Bringing together a panel of academic experts, this event calls upon the panelists to discuss the challenges and opportunities facing research… Read More ›
Know your terrorist credit score!
I can’t recommend this talk highly enough. It was the most thought provoking thing I saw at this year’s re:publica.
CfP: Countercultures of Data
Call for Papers for *Philosophy and Technology*’s special issue on Countercultures of Data Guest Editor Anna Lauren Hoffmann, School of Information – University of California, Berkeley About the Issue 25 years ago, Sandra Harding—in her influential book *Whose Science? Whose… Read More ›
The Politics of Data
A new series on the LSE Impact Blog, following on from the Philosophy of Data Science interview series and the Discover Society special issue on the Politics of Data (Science). Follow it in full here. Our latest series delves into the politics of data…. Read More ›
The politics of data science
A special issue of Discover Society I recently edited: FOCUS: The Emerging Contours of Data Science William Housley, (Cardiff University) Read More VIEWPOINT: The Politics of Data Visualisation Joanna Boehnert Read More ON THE FRONTLINE: What is the Data in Big… Read More ›
The really hard problem facing behavioural science
In recent years behavioural science has made great advances in the reliability of facial recognition techniques. Current evidence suggests algorithmic facial identification systems are now more reliable than human attempts to recognise faces. This leads some to have confidence in… Read More ›
CfP: The Politics of Data (Science)
The Politics of Data (Science) This special issue of Discover Society will explore the political implications of ‘big data’ and the systems of expertise emerging around it, including though not limited to Data Science. In doing so it will aim… Read More ›
CfP: The Politics of Data (Science)
The Politics of Data (Science) This special issue of Discover Society will explore the political implications of ‘big data’ and the systems of expertise emerging around it, including though not limited to Data Science. In doing so it will aim… Read More ›
CfP: The Politics of Data (Science)
The Politics of Data (Science) This special issue of Discover Society will explore the political implications of ‘big data’ and the systems of expertise emerging around it, including though not limited to Data Science. In doing so it will aim… Read More ›
Big data philanthropy
This recent article in the New Yorker introduces a new counselling service, based in New York, which uses text messages a point of contact for young people experiencing crisis. It’s an intriguing discussion of changing generational norms regarding communication, offering a rich… Read More ›
The Philosophy of Data Science
I conducted this series of interviews for the LSE Impact Blog: Sabina Leonelli: “What constitutes trustworthy data changes across time and space” Rob Kitchin: “Big data should complement small data, not replace them.” Evelyn Ruppert: “Social consequences of Big Data… Read More ›
Big Data and the ‘‘Book of Society”
An important point from the paper Big Data, social physics, and spatial analysis: The early years by Trevor J Barnes and Matthew W Wilson: The most immediate invocation of monism by Big Data is its assumption that the social world can be… Read More ›
Rethinking empirical social science
In this paper in Dialogues in Human Geography, Evelyn Ruppert from Goldsmiths College makes a case for the need to rethink empirical social science in the face of the epistemological and methodological challenge of ‘big data’: While Big Data –… Read More ›
The role of metaphors in framing Data Science
This is very interesting. The author argues that “Data carpentry” is “not a single process but a thousand little skills and techniques”. He takes issue with the manner in which other ways of framing this dimension of what data scientists do… Read More ›
The Philosophy of Data Science
This is a series of interviews I’m conducting for the LSE Impact blog: Rob Kitchin: “Big data should complement small data, not replace them.” In this first interview, Rob Kitchin elaborates on the specific characteristics of big data, the hype… Read More ›
Big Data and the Future of the Social Sciences
In this podcast, Professor Patrick Dunleavy talks about how big data will affect the future of the social sciences. Say goodbye to academic siloes as we enter into a new age of cross/multi/and inter-disciplinary research. In this changing landscape, the old boundaries… Read More ›
The origins of methodological genocide: “all science is becoming data science”
All science is becoming data science. Therefore data scientists have a lot of power in this regime [stifles a laugh] It’s a great time to be a data geek. This is an interesting aside made by Bill Howe of Washington… Read More ›
The big data brain drain
This provocative post by Jake VanderPlas argues that “the skills required to be a successful scientific researcher are increasingly indistinguishable from the skills required to be successful in industry” and that important implications follow from this for the future of higher education. There… Read More ›
OkCupid, social media and the ethics of data science
Not long after a scandal erupted over Facebook’s report on the experiment they conducted on users of the service, leading to an apology about how the study was communicated, the dating website OkCupid has waded into the debate with an… Read More ›
The economies and ecologies of Big Data
In this fascinating talk from the NSMNSS conference last year, Evelyn Ruppert discusses the economies and ecologies of Big Data. Her research flowed from the Social Life of Methods project and led to the establishment of the exciting journal Big Data &… Read More ›
Five Recommendations for Social Scientists in responding to big data
This is our 2000th post! I recently came across this post by Helen Margetts on the LSE Impact Blog from a few months ago. It’s worth reading the post in full but what really caught my imagination were the five recommendations she… Read More ›
Computational Social Science Conference
COMPUTATIONAL SOCIAL SCIENCE CONFERENCEWed 11 – Fri 13 June 2014, University of Warwick, UKhttp://compsocsci.eu/The increasing availability of large quantities of human behavioural data has drawn the interest of researchers across the social sciences, the natural sciences and engineering. This conference aims to… Read More ›
Computational Social Science Conference
COMPUTATIONAL SOCIAL SCIENCE CONFERENCEWed 11 – Fri 13 June 2014, University of Warwick, UKhttp://compsocsci.eu/The increasing availability of large quantities of human behavioural data has drawn the interest of researchers across the social sciences, the natural sciences and engineering. This conference aims to… Read More ›