Tag: big data

What are the barriers to big data analytics in local government?

28/06/2017

– in Governance & Security, Interviews

Examining the extent to which local governments in the UK are using intelligence from big…
Alan Turing Institute and OII: Summit on Data Science for Government and Policy Making

31/05/2016

– in Ethics, Politics & Government, Social Data Science

Leading policy makers, data scientists and academics came together to discuss how the ATI and…
Exploring the Ethics of Monitoring Online Extremism

23/03/2016

– in Collective Action, Democracy, Ethics, Governance & Security, Politics & Government

Exploring the complexities of policing the web for extremist material, and its implications for security,…
P-values are widely used in the social sciences, but often misunderstood: and that’s a problem.

07/03/2016

– in Methods, Social Data Science, Tools

We need to make standards for interpreting p-values more stringent, and also improve transparency in…
New Voluntary Code: Guidance for Sharing Data Between Organisations

08/01/2016

– in Governance & Security

For data sharing between organisations to be straight forward, there needs to a common understanding…
Government “only” retaining online metadata still presents a privacy risk

30/11/2015

– in Ethics, Governance & Security

When considered in relation to individuals’ privacy, metadata should not be viewed as fundamentally different…
How big data is breathing new life into the smart cities concept

23/07/2015

– 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

11/05/2015

– 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

30/04/2015

– in Social Data Science

There is a lot of excitement about ‘big data’, but the potential for innovative work…
How can big data be used to advance dementia research?

16/03/2015

– 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

01/03/2015

– 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?

15/01/2015

– in Economics, Social Data Science

Men and women tend to be rewarded differently for the same amount of work. Since…