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
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 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
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