Tag: Big Data

The Value of Big Data Creation

By SAGE | Published: May 12, 2018

How do firms transform big data and why do firms differ in their abilities to create value from big data? in a research article that tries to find answers to these questions. Jing Zeng and Keith Glaister find “it is not the data itself, or individual data scientists, that generate value creation opportunities. Rather, value creation occurs through the process of data management."

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Data Systems & GovTech Apps Impacts Students Positively

By Ben Williamson | Published: April 18, 2018

Current debates in higher education policy have drawn attention to the significant impacts of marketization, metrics, and performance management on the sector. Ben Williamson argues that a restructuring of the data infrastructure is shaping these HE trends.

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Academic Researchers Need Support and Incentives to Share Data

By Grace Baynes | Published: April 17, 2018

Making data available for other researchers to find, use, reuse, ultimately makes research more efficient and effective. Yet despite policies that encourage and require data sharing, researchers in the UK and US report lower percentages of data sharing than average. Grace Baynes suggests researchers be given incentives, expert support, and training to make it easy to share data.

Posted in Research Ethics | Also tagged Open Science, Research Policy | Leave a comment

How Do You Feel About Companies With Personal Data

By Helen Kennedy | Published: March 31, 2018

The recent revelation that Cambridge Analytica was able to acquire the Facebook data led to a surge of interest and questions around what companies do with people’s data. Amidst all of this, little attention has been paid to the feelings of those whose data are used, shared, and acted upon.

Posted in News, Research, Research Ethics | Also tagged Data Science, Research Methods | Leave a comment

Divining What a ‘Digital Truth Serum’ Can Reveal to Us

By Michael Todd, Social Science Space editor | Published: February 15, 2018

The underlying conceit of economist and data scientist Seth Stephens-Davidowitz’s work, whether in his new book, on the op-ed pages of the New York Times or in the classroom, or on campus, is that people’s search activity on a search engine reveals much more about them than do surveys, polls, or other social media

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Ziyad Marar: Building Bridges Between Big Data and Social Research

By Social Science Space | Published: January 16, 2018

In a keynote address delivered to the London Info International conference, Ziyad Marar, president of global publishing for SAGE Publishing, outlines the intersection between big data and social science research. He notes that social and behavioral researchers have seen some opportunities as beyond their grasp, and that SAGE is working to bridge that gap.

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Putting Big Data to Big Use

By Katie Metzler | Published: December 14, 2017

The applications of big data provide a very mixed picture about its uses and abuses, in government, academe and private industry. And while where you stand on the net impact depends, as the cliche goes, on where you sit, a panel at the recent ESRC Festival of Social Science came out qualitatively optimistic about the future.

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Making Sense of Society: Alison Harper

By Social Science Space | Published: March 30, 2017

Social Science Space will publish the winning essays, runners-up and eight shortlisted pieces from the most recent ESRC writing competition in the next few weeks. Here we present "Better healthcare with deep data,” an essay from Alsion Harper detailing some of the concepts she's observed with the use of endoscopy in a retirement hotspot.

Posted in Early Career, Recognition | Also tagged competition, ESRC, Health Care | Leave a comment

How Will Big Data Affect Evolution of Social Science?

By Social Science Space | Published: December 2, 2016

How will social science research and teaching evolve to meet the challenges and opportunities big data creates? How can we bring down barriers to make this new computational social science accessible for all social researchers? That was the subject of a panel discussion at last month's ESRC Festival of Social Sciences 2016.

Posted in Interdisciplinarity, International Debates | Also tagged ESRC | Leave a comment

Tag: Big Data

The Value of Big Data Creation

Data Systems & GovTech Apps Impacts Students Positively

Academic Researchers Need Support and Incentives to Share Data

How Do You Feel About Companies With Personal Data

Divining What a ‘Digital Truth Serum’ Can Reveal to Us

Ziyad Marar: Building Bridges Between Big Data and Social Research

Putting Big Data to Big Use

Making Sense of Society: Alison Harper

How Will Big Data Affect Evolution of Social Science?

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