Tag: Social Data Science
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Introducing the 2020 OII MSc Thesis Prize Winners
10 February 2021
Author:It gives us great pleasure to announce the winners of the 2020 OII MSc Thesis Prizes. The Board of Examiners awarded one Thesis Prize for the MSc in Social ...
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Why social data science matters to societal resilience
15 May 2020
Author: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 ...
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Is the rise in mobile use in Britain bridging the digital divide?
20 February 2020
Author: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, ...
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Introducing the 2019 MSc Thesis Prize Winners
21 November 2019
Author: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 ...
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Better and locally sensitive use of data could cut traffic jams
6 November 2019
Author: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: ...
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Mapping Fentanyl Trades on the Darknet
16 October 2017
Author: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 ...
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Twitter trials 280 characters, but its success in Japan is more than a character difference
1 October 2017
Author: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 ...
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Our knowledge of how automated agents interact is rather poor (and that could be a problem)
14 June 2017
Author: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 ...
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Did you consider Twitter’s (lack of) representativeness before doing that predictive study?
10 April 2017
Author: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 ...
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Exploring the world of self-tracking: who wants our data and why?
7 April 2017
Author: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 ...
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HUMANE Workshop, Wrap-up
2 April 2017
Author: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 ...
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Machine agency and the future of work
14 March 2017
Author: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 ...
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Estimating the Local Geographies of Digital Inequality in Britain: London and the South East Show Highest Internet Use — But Why?
1 March 2017
Author: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 ...
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Help us improve the HUMANE roadmaps on Sharing Economy, eHealth, and Citizens’ Participation!
27 January 2017
Author:The HUMANE project is building roadmaps that can help guide future policies in specific social domains such as Sharing Economy, eHealth, and Citizens’ Participation. The HUMANE roadmaps act as a ...
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Cyberbullying: no place to hide
24 January 2017
Author: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 ...
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HUMANE Roadmapping Process
16 January 2017
Author: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 ...
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Sensitive data, cognitive resource and my community: extending the Tie Strength dimension
20 December 2016
Author: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 ...
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GDPR: the right to be forgotten
15 December 2016
Author: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 ...
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Can we predict electoral outcomes from Wikipedia traffic?
6 December 2016
Author: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 ...
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Even Good Bots Fight
5 December 2016
Author: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 ...
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