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
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