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Statistics and Big Data
I am late, I know… I came back last week from the NTTS (New Techniques and Technologies for Statistics) 2013 conference in Brussels and have not yet had a minute to stop and write down my impressions. Fortunately I live-tweeted during the conference, so I haven’t completely lost trace of my thoughts while there… let […]
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Just as an additional part of my interview on data has come out on SFR Player, I am preparing to attend a major conference on data and statistics next week in Brussels, with participation of national statistical institutes from European and other countries. Official statisticians who mainly used to do surveys, now fully realize the […]
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Tags: Big data, Network Analysis, Quantitative methods, Social science data, social theory, Statistical modeling, Web-based social networks
I was interviewd by SFR PLAYER (an online magazine published by SFR, a major Telecom provider in France) on the changes induced by the use of big data in my work as a social science researcher. The video interview (in French) is available here. The same issue features an interview with danah boyd and various […]
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Tags: Big data, Quantitative methods, Small data, Social science data, Social simulation, Statistical data, Web-based social networks
Statistics is not just about maths… beyond chi-squares and p-values, statistics was originally created in the seventeenth century as the science (or perhaps, the art)! of describing the state, and still does so today. Governments have statistical agencies in charge of informing it on the state of the country. Among other things, statistical agencies measure […]
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Tags: Data policy, Open data, Public policy analysis, social media, Social science data, Statistics
The IAOS conference in Kiev, now just over, has been a great opportunity to discuss the “open data” movement and how it is radically transforming policy-making. Data, it is hoped, enable citizens to make more informed choices and hold the government to account: expenses, contracts, decisions and even meetings with lobbyists are now subject to […]
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Tags: Data policy, Open data, Research data, Social science data, social theory, Statistical modeling, Statistics
SNA, NS, CSS: what are we doing?
The rise of social media has brought a new life to the academic field of social network analysis (commonly referred to as SNA). Traditionally grounded in sociology with applications to neighbouring fields such as management and education, it has now expanded to a variety of other disciplines including economics, geography, psychology, science studies and even […]
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Tags: Network Analysis, Social science data, Social simulation, social theory, Sociology, Trans-disciplinarity, Web-based social networks
Data, data everywhere
It’s already one week since I came back from the latest conference of IASSIST, the international association of data professionals. I now know several people in the field and I am becoming increasingly interested in data issues! To be sure, many of the topics they address are very technical and unlikely to concern many beyond […]
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Tags: Big data, Social science data, Teaching
On Tuesday and Wednesday last week, I was at the 1st European Data Access Forum on Eurostat premises in Luxembourg. Representatives of governmental statistical agencies and academia (including funding councils, data services and us researchers) discussed how to enhance research use of the wealth of data that governments produce and that offer a great, still […]
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Tags: Big data, Data access, Internet data, Research policy, Social science data, Statistical data, Web-based social networks
Another post inspired by my participation in a major statistics conference –ISI2011 last week in Dublin. I am currently working at a large European project aiming to improve overall conditions of access to official data for scientific purposes, reducing existing inequalities across countries and (ideally, at least) providing a basis for a more consistent European-wide […]
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Tags: Internet data, Public policy analysis, Qualitative data, Quantitative data, Quantitative methods, Social science data, Social surveys, social theory, Statistical modeling, Web
