Big Data

How Intelligent is Artificial Intelligence?
Public Policy
September 27, 2023

How Intelligent is Artificial Intelligence?

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CNSTAT Report Emphasizes the Need for a National Data Infrastructure
News
October 6, 2022

CNSTAT Report Emphasizes the Need for a National Data Infrastructure

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Paper on Danish National Patient Register Keeps on Giving After 10 Years
Impact
July 29, 2022

Paper on Danish National Patient Register Keeps on Giving After 10 Years

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Ithaka Report Asks How Universities Can Better Support Big Data Research
Bookshelf
December 6, 2021

Ithaka Report Asks How Universities Can Better Support Big Data Research

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No More Tradeoffs: The Era of Big Data Analysis Has Come

No 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. But, at least in the area of text analysis (AKA content analysis, or natural language processing), the old limits are crumbling

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Microsite Offers Research on Big Data Research

Microsite 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 about big data through November 15.

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The Value of Big Data Creation

The Value of Big Data Creation

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

Data Systems & GovTech Apps Impacts Students Positively

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

Academic Researchers Need Support and Incentives to Share Data

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.

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How Do You Feel About Companies With Personal Data

How Do You Feel About Companies With Personal Data

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.

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

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

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

Ziyad Marar: Building Bridges Between Big Data and Social Research

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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