On Wednesday 17th June, the UK projects funded under round 3 of the Digging into Data challenge gathered together at Paddington for the mid-term progress meeting. This workshop provided projects with the opportunity to present, not just on progress, but on highlights, issues, challenges and share this information with the funders and other projects. Rather … Read more
The Trees and Tweets project is once again in the news. This time the project features in this article in The Atlantic – Things that make you go “um”. The article discusses how the linguists on the Trees and Tweets project team analysed Twitter data to learn about how both men and women, from different US regions, … Read more
Although phase 3 projects have only recently started some have already received interest in the media. The Trees and Tweets project is conducting an analysis of dialect variation based on a corpus of billions of tweets and an analysis of migration patterns based on a dataset consisting of millions of family trees. At the Methods … Read more
Jisc is seeking to commission a robust and independent formative evaluation report to help guide the future direction of the Digging into Data Challenge. Jisc (on behalf of Jisc, ESRC and AHRC) invites tenders for an evaluation of the Digging into Data Challenge focussing on phase 2 and emergent lessons from phase 3. The aim of … Read more