Tag: Social Data Science

15 May 2020

Authors: Mark Malbas

Dr Balazs Vedres, Senior Research Fellow and Programme Director for the DPhil in Social Data Science, sets out why the discipline is more important than ever The importance of ...
Read More Why social data science matters to societal resilience

20 February 2020

Authors: Sara Spinks

As Britain increasingly becomes a digital society, findings from the latest Oxford Internet Survey (OXIS) report, ‘The Rise of Mobile Internet Use in Britain, co-authored by Dr Grant Blank, ...
Read More Is the rise in mobile use in Britain bridging the digital divide?

21 November 2019

Authors: Sara Spinks

Congratulations to all our winners of the 2019 OII MSC thesis prize. It gives us great pleasure to announce the winners of the 2019 OII MSc Thesis Prize.  This ...
Read More Introducing the 2019 MSc Thesis Prize Winners

6 November 2019

Authors: Mark Malbas

Ever been stuck in queuing traffic which seems to have no explanation? Have you ever encountered a roundabout which creates more congestion than can be relieved? No surprise there: ...
Read More Better and locally sensitive use of data could cut traffic jams

16 October 2017

Authors: Mark Graham

My colleagues Joss Wright, Martin Dittus and I have been scraping the world’s largest darknet marketplaces over the last few months, as part of our darknet mapping project. The data we ...
Read More Mapping Fentanyl Trades on the Darknet

1 October 2017

Authors: Scott A. Hale

Twitter has rolled out a limited trial of 280 characters for some of its users. In announcing the trial, Twitter specifically noted that most Japanese tweets had 15 characters ...
Read More Twitter trials 280 characters, but its success in Japan is more than a character difference

14 June 2017

Authors: Taha Yasseri

  Wikipedia uses editing bots to clean articles: but what happens when their interactions go bad? Image of “Nomade”, a sculpture in downtown Des Moines by Jason Mrachina (Flickr ...
Read More Our knowledge of how automated agents interact is rather poor (and that could be a problem)

10 April 2017

Authors: Grant Blank

Twitter data have many qualities that appeal to researchers, but are probably not suitable for research where representativeness is important. Image: Bernard Goldbach (Flickr). Twitter data have many qualities ...
Read More Did you consider Twitter’s (lack of) representativeness before doing that predictive study?

7 April 2017

Authors: Gina Neff

Benjamin Franklin used to keep charts of his time spent and virtues lived up to. Today, we use technology to self-track: our hours slept, steps taken, calories consumed, medications ...
Read More Exploring the world of self-tracking: who wants our data and why?

2 April 2017

Authors: Taha Yasseri

On 21st of March, we hold the HUMANE Intentional Workshop in Oxford. We had some 50+ participants from across different sectors; academia, industry, and public sectors, as well as technicians and ...
Read More HUMANE Workshop, Wrap-up

14 March 2017

Authors: Taha Yasseri

The introduction of new technology causes concern for the future of work. What is the role of humans in a work life in which an increasing number of tasks ...
Read More Machine agency and the future of work

1 March 2017

Authors: David Sutcliffe

Small area estimation techniques allow us to estimate Internet use in small geographies in Britain: the first attempt to estimate Internet use at any small-scale level. Read the full ...
Read More Estimating the Local Geographies of Digital Inequality in Britain: London and the South East Show Highest Internet Use — But Why?

24 January 2017

Authors: Taha Yasseri

In an excellent cross-cultural study on Wikipedia edit/revert behaviours [1], Tsvetkova and her colleagues argue among other things for a mediating effect of culture in accounting for different dominance patterns ...
Read More Cyberbullying: no place to hide

16 January 2017

Authors: Taha Yasseri

In the course of the HUMANE project, we examine a sample of social domains, where human-machine interaction is expected to be significant in the future. We study the type ...
Read More HUMANE Roadmapping Process

20 December 2016

Authors: Taha Yasseri

Are users always worried about their data? One consequence of the Wanless report is a need for more distributed healthcare. This means that an ageing and expanding patient population ...
Read More Sensitive data, cognitive resource and my community: extending the Tie Strength dimension

15 December 2016

Authors: Taha Yasseri

What does HUMANE profiling tell us about data protection?  Back in 1995, the European Parliament issued the Directive for data protection, which by 1998 had passed into national law ...
Read More GDPR: the right to be forgotten

6 December 2016

Authors: Taha Yasseri

2016 presidential candidate Donald Trump in a residential backyard near Jordan Creek Parkway and Cody Drive in West Des Moines, Iowa, with lights and security cameras. Image by Tony ...
Read More Can we predict electoral outcomes from Wikipedia traffic?

5 December 2016

Authors: Milena Tsvetkova

In recent years, there has been a huge increase in the number of bots online, varying from web crawlers for search engines, to chatbots for online customer service, spambots ...
Read More Even Good Bots Fight

4 November 2016

Authors: Milena Tsvetkova

Our study on disagreement in Wikipedia was just published in Scientific Reports (impact factor 5.2). In this study, we find that disagreement and conflict in Wikipedia follow specific patterns. ...
Read More New Paper: Personal clashes and Status in Wikipedia Edit Wars