Posts Tagged ‘Social science data’
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
The one-day workshop on “Introduction to Social Network Analysis” that I gave two weeks ago (wow, time flies…) at the University of Greenwich was a great satisfaction! A good audience of about 15 people (not too few, not too many), all very bright and nice. We had interesting and stimulating questions, and it was quite […]
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Tags: Inter-organisational Networks, Intra-organisational networks, Network Analysis, Networks and Markets, Quantitative methods, Social science data, Web-based social networks
I am going to give another one-day workshop on Introduction to Social Network Analysis in a couple of weeks time -more precisely on Monday, 14th January, at the University of Greenwich, London, as part of a Winter School for researchers and PhD students in social science, management and economics, dedicated to Analytical Software. The rationale […]
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Tags: Inter-organisational Networks, Intra-organisational networks, Mixed methods, Personal networks, Quantitative methods, Social science data, Web-based social networks
I was yesterday at the Just-in-Time-Sociology (JITSO) workshop in Lausanne (oh, how I still like this town, after such a long time!). JITSO was a small-scale, nice and friendly event for like-minded social researchers, who feel the urge to use their baggage of theories and techniques to provide science-informed responses to today’s fast-paced social, political […]
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Tags: 2011 UK riots, Agent-based models, Mixed methods, Public policy analysis, Quantitative methods, Social science data, Social simulation, social theory, Sociology, Web
[SAVE THE DATE: on 14th December 2012, we will hold a symposium on “Understanding Pro-Ana: Body, Networks and Nutrition” (Comprendre le phénomène pro-ana : corps, réseaux, alimentation) at Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris. It is an output of the research project ANAMIA of which the study presented here is part]. With Antonio Casilli and Lise […]
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Tags: Eating behaviors, Eating disorders, Network Analysis, Pro-ana and pro-mia websites, Quantitative methods, Social science data, Sociology, Web, Well-being
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
