Posts Tagged ‘Statistical modeling’
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
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
I have just come back home from the annual conference of the British Sociological Association in Leeds. Lots of participants, excellent organisation, and a surprisingly nice (though rainy and chilly!) town with a modern, functional, well-equipped campus. Overall, however, a sense of unease prevailed. Perhaps it was the very theme of the conference: “Sociology in […]
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Tags: Impact, Public sociology, Qualitative data, Quantitative methods, Social media for research, Social science data, social theory, Sociology, Statistical modeling
Of all the economic bubbles … few have burst more spectacularly than the reputation of economics itself. So wrote The Economist in July 2009, commenting on the financial crisis. In the last few years, many have pointed their fingers at the discipline and its incapacity to predict the crisis, let alone to devise remedies for […]
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Tags: Economic analysis, economic methodology, History of economics, Qualitative data, Quantitative methods, Social science data, Statistical modeling, Trans-disciplinarity
I gave a one-day workshop on Introduction to Social Network Analysis in July, and it was a great experience -for me and, from what I could see, for participants. I am now about to repeat the experience, and I’m so excited about it! Indeed, at the upcoming Winter School on Analytical Software at the University […]
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Tags: History of social science, Inter-organisational Networks, Intra-organisational networks, Networks and Markets, Public policy analysis, Quantitative methods, Social science data, social theory, Statistical modeling, Trans-disciplinarity, 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
I’m just back from the World Statistics Congress, a grand event that took place in Dublin in the last few days, bringing together statisticians from all over the world and from all sorts of institutions -from government offices and international institutions to academia and private companies. The event prompts me to think more about my […]
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Tags: 2011 UK riots, economic methodology, Quantitative methods, Social science data, social theory, Statistical modeling
Researchers in economics and the social sciences often complain that they have limited or no access to high-quality public-sector data, such as those collected by National Statistical Institutes to build governmental statistics and write the reports that underpin the implementation of public policies. To be sure, the situation is improving in several countries at least […]
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Tags: Data access, Governmental data, Open access to scientific publications, Quantitative methods, Research ethics, Social science data, Statistical modeling
7th UKSNA Conference now over
In the last few days, my University has hosted the 7th UK Social Networks conference. Good attendance, good atmosphere, and many good papers, despite remarkable absences (unfortunately!), primarily due to other relevant conferences taking place simultaneously elsewhere. I have been particularly proud of my three students who have presented posters based on their coursework on […]
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Tags: Agent-based models, Inter-organisational Networks, Intra-organisational networks, Network Analysis, Networks and Markets, Pro-ana and pro-mia websites, Qualitative data, Quantitative methods, Social science data, Social simulation, social theory, Statistical modeling, Web-based social networks
