Category: Social Data Science

The limits of uberisation: How far can platforms go?

Feb 29, 2016

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in Economics, Social Data Science

Homejoy was slated to become the Uber of domestic cleaning services. It was a platform…
Creating a semantic map of sexism worldwide: topic modelling of content from the “Everyday Sexism” project

Oct 7, 2015

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in Social Data Science

What are the most common types of sexism globally, and (how) do they relate to…
How big data is breathing new life into the smart cities concept

Jul 23, 2015

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in Politics & Government, Social Data Science

If all the cars have GPS devices, all the people have mobile phones, and all…
Digital Disconnect: Parties, Pollsters and Political Analysis in #GE2015

May 11, 2015

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in Politics & Government, Social Data Science

The Oxford Internet Institute undertook some live analysis of social media data over the night…
Tracing our every move: Big data and multi-method research

Apr 30, 2015

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in Social Data Science

There is a lot of excitement about ‘big data’, but the potential for innovative work…
After dinner: the best time to create 1.5 million dollars of ground-breaking science

Apr 24, 2015

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in Mapping, Social Data Science

The Zooniverse is a predominant example of citizen science projects that have enjoyed particularly widespread…
How can big data be used to advance dementia research?

Mar 16, 2015

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in Health, Social Data Science, Wellbeing

As dementia is believed to be influenced by a wide range of social, environmental and…
Don’t knock clickivism: it represents the political participation aspirations of the modern citizen

Mar 1, 2015

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in Collective Action, Politics & Government, Social Data Science

Is an action only ‘political’ if it takes place in the mainstream political arena; involving…
Gender gaps in virtual economies: are there virtual ‘pink’ and ‘blue’ collar occupations?

Jan 15, 2015

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in Economics, Social Data Science

Men and women tend to be rewarded differently for the same amount of work. Since…
Two years after the NYT’s ‘Year of the MOOC’: how much do we actually know about them?

Nov 13, 2014

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in Education, Social Data Science

Despite the hype around MOOCs to date, there are many similarities between MOOC research and…
What are the limitations of learning at scale? Investigating information diffusion and network vulnerability in MOOCs

Oct 21, 2014

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in Education, Social Data Science

while a lot is known about the mechanics of group learning in smaller and traditionally…
Facebook and the Brave New World of Social Research using Big Data

Jun 30, 2014

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in Social Data Science

What’s new about companies and academic researchers doing this kind of research to manipulate peoples’…