How Do You Feel About Companies With Personal Data
The post can originally be on LSE Impact Blog under the title “How people feel about what companies do with their data is just as important as what they know about it” by Helen Kennedy. It’s been an...
View ArticleAcademic Researchers Need Support and Incentives to Share Data
To achieve real “open science” we need to open up all areas of research, including research data. Making data available for other researchers to find, use, reuse, and reproduce will make research more...
View ArticleData Systems & GovTech Apps Impacts Students Positively
Digital data analytics have begun to impact on fields of public and social policy, and higher education is currently high on the agenda for data-driven “government by algorithm”. An example is the...
View ArticleThe Value of Big Data Creation
How do firms transform big data in order to create value? Why do firms differ in their abilities to create value from big data? These questions continued popping up for researchers Jing Zeng and Keith...
View ArticleMicrosite Offers Research on Big Data Research
In the latest of its monthly series of interdisciplinary microsites addressing important public issues, SAGE Publishing is offering free access to a suite academic articles that focus on research...
View ArticleNo More Tradeoffs: The Era of Big Data Analysis Has Come
For centuries, being a scientist has meant learning to live with limited data. People only share so much on a survey form. Experiments don’t account for all the conditions of real world situations....
View ArticleIthaka Report Asks How Universities Can Better Support Big Data Research
(Photo: luckey_sun/Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0) Big data research, notes a new report, is resource intensive “in both obvious and less immediately apparent ways,” already absorbing financial capital, human...
View ArticlePaper on Danish National Patient Register Keeps on Giving After 10 Years
Public records are the basis for a large swath of medical and social science research. So it’s not surprising that guides to these records would prove popular in the academic community. But just how...
View ArticleCNSTAT Report Emphasizes the Need for a National Data Infrastructure
Having credible and accessible data is essential for various sectors of society to function. In the recent report, “Toward a 21st Century National Data Infrastructure: Mobilizing Information for the...
View ArticleHow Intelligent is Artificial Intelligence?
Cryptocurrencies are so last year. Today’s moral panic is about AI and machine learning. Governments around the world are hastening to adopt positions and regulate what they are told is a potentially...
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