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Tag Archives: big data
A music timeline (using big data)
Flowing data have some information about the use of data to create historical music timelines. The above shows the consumption of music genre over time.
Posted in data and dataplay, music, visualisation, web cultures
Tagged big data, Music timeline
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Big Data and Geography
The current issue of Dialogues in Human Geography contains a special section on Geography and Big Data. The section follows the usual format for this journal, with a featured article followed by a series of responses. In this case the … Continue reading
Posted in data and dataplay, infrastructures, metrics, software, space
Tagged big data, geography, special issue
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Nick Couldry on the myths of the digital age (and big data)
Nick Couldry’s inaugural lecture ‘A Necessary Disenchantment: Myth, Agency and Injustice in the Digital Age‘ is now available as an audio podcast or as a video. It’s a really far reaching talk on the myths that circulate about developments in … Continue reading
Posted in data and dataplay, future of sociology, metrics, software, web cultures
Tagged audio, big data, myths, Nick couldry
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Big Data & Society
The new open access journal Big Data & Society is getting closer to publication. It’s edited by Evelyn Ruppert. It now has a blog/website which is now live. It contains some further information about the journal, with more to follow … Continue reading
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Tagged big data, journal, society
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A special issue on ‘Making data – big data and beyond’
The literature on ‘big data’ is continuing to grow at a fairly rapid pace. First Monday have just published a special issue on ‘Making data – Big data and beyond‘ edited by Rasmus Helles and Klaus Bruhn Jenson.
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Tagged big data, first Monday, special issue
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A short reading list on the topic ‘Digital by-product data and the social sciences’
Yesterday I posted some description and an outline of my module ‘Digital by-product data and the social sciences‘. Afterwards a couple of people asked if I’d be happy to share the readings, which I certainly am. So I managed to … Continue reading
A comprehensive list of data sources and services
Via Rob Kitchin on Twitter, the Visualising Data blog has an entry that is described as ‘A big collection of sites and services for accessing data‘. The post contains a comprehensive list of the data sources, and analysis tools, that … Continue reading
Posted in data and dataplay, film, infrastructures, metrics, music, objects, software, visualisation, web cultures
Tagged big data, data, data availability, data services, data sets, digital data
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Evelyn Ruppert on the economies and ecologies of big data
The Digital Sociology web resource has a video of Evelyn Ruppert talking ion the ‘Economies and Ecologies of Big Data‘. Evelyn is editor of the forthcoming journal Big Data & Society. She discuss the journal a little in the talk. … Continue reading
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Tagged big data, evelyn ruppert
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Why big data is not the truth
The New York Times has published an overview of a recent talk by Kate Crawford on the limits or ‘myths’ of big data. This has been circulating around Twitter over the last few days, with various responses. The piece outlines … Continue reading
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Tagged big data, Kate Crawford, myths, talk
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