The third Digging into Data challenge funded 9 UK projects, each with an international partner, as stipulated in the funding conditions. This challenge built on the successes of the previous two and Jisc has been involved in all three challenges. In the UK, Digging into Data Challenge 3 projects were managed by Jisc and sponsored … Read more
An ESRC convened group looking at Big Data, in particular new forms of data such as social media data, led by Dave De Roure (Oxford e-Research Centre) is studying the use of social media for social research. A survey has recently been launched in order to help the group to learn more about how the … Read more
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
In the UK, Digging into Data phase 3 is funded by AHRC, ESRC and Jisc. Over the next few months each funder will be writing a blog post relevant to Digging into Data. Last October, Christie Walker from AHRC attended the Big Humanities Data Workshop in the USA and she has written the following post … 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
The Digging into Data Challenge aims to address how “big data” changes the research landscape for the humanities and social sciences. In particular, the four goals of the initiative are: to promote the development and deployment of innovative research techniques in large-scale data analysis that focus on applications for the humanities and social sciences; to … Read more
The new Digging into Data website (http://www.diggingintodata.org) is up and running. It’s been rebuilt from scratch and I am reliably informed that it’s mobile friendly. This is a timely release as Monday (27 October) sees the start of the IEEE International Conference on Big Data. Seven Digging into Data projects’ PIs will be presenting papers … 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
Welcome to the Digging into Data Challenge Phase 3 blog. On January 15, 2014 ten international research funders from four countries jointly announced the winners of the third Digging into Data Challenge, a competition to develop new insights, tools and skills in innovative humanities and social science research using large-scale data analysis. Fourteen teams representing … Read more