Big Data
Video Playlist

Talks exploring the practical and ethical effect of Big Data.
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Victoria Nash delivers the OII London Lecture
Recorded: 28 January 2020
Duration: 56:25:00
Connected cots, talking teddies and the rise of the algorithmic child.
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Parlia: building an encyclopaedia of opinion by Turi Munthe
Recorded: 3 December 2019
Duration: 58:23:00
The Oxford Internet Institute is delighted to welcome Turi Munthe, media entrepreneur and investor, and founder of Demotix.
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I am large, I contain multitudes
Recorded: 13 November 2019
Duration: 50:59:00
I am Large, I Contain Multitudes.
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Privacy, identity, and autonomy in the age of big data and AI
Recorded: 6 May 2019
Duration: 04:40:00
Privacy, identity, and autonomy in the age of big data and AI - Sandra Wachter, University of Oxford speaking at the Strata Data Conference.
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Discover Oxford AI
Recorded: 24 October 2018
Duration: 02:24:00
“Your surfing behaviour, your clicking behaviour, is collected and is being analysed – so it becomes your digital identity”
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What Happens After You Both Swipe Right: A Statistical Description of Mobile Dating Communications
Recorded: 18 October 2016
Duration: 00:27:18
Our personal and social daily activities produce an unprecedented amount of data: Taha Yasseri is interested in developing mechanistic models to explain not just causality but also quantitative prediction.
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Big Data Analytics: OII MSc Methods Option Course
Recorded: 13 October 2016
Duration: 00:02:15
Big data, the real time streams of transactional records of our daily activities, hold major promise for (computational) social science.
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Symposium on Big Data and Human Development: Professor Alex (Sandy) Pentland
Recorded: 16 September 2016
Duration: 01:04:18
Keynote by Professor Alex (Sandy) Pentland, Academic Director of Data-Pop Alliance, and Director of the MIT Human Dynamics Lab.
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Symposium on Big Data and Human Development: Dr Linnet Taylor
Recorded: 16 September 2016
Duration: 00:55:17
Keynote by Dr Linnet Taylor, Assistant Professor in Data Ethics, Law & Policy, Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology and Society (TILT).
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Symposium on Big Data and Human Development: Panel Discussion
Recorded: 16 September 2016
Duration: 01:20:17
Peter Tufano (University of Oxford) Prof. Helen Margetts (University of Oxford), Prof. Bitange Ndemo (University of Nairobi Business School), Prof. Sandy Pentland (MIT) and Dr Linnet Taylor (Tilburg University).
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Symposium on Big Data and Human Development: Professor Bitange Ndemo
Recorded: 15 September 2016
Duration: 01:06:40
Keynote by Professor Bitange Ndemo, Former Permanent Secretary of Kenya’s Ministry of Information and Communication, and Lecturer at the University of Nairobi.
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Turing Lecture: The Data Science of Politics
Recorded: 30 March 2016
Duration: 01:02:04
Helen Margetts discusses how data science might help us to understand, explain and even predict 'political turbulence', by making use of data generated by politics co-ordinated, communicated and organized through social media.
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Turing Lecture: Ethics in the Age of Information
Recorded: 30 March 2016
Duration: 01:14:46
Professor Luciano Floridi outlines the nature and scope of Information Ethics, the new philosophical area of research that investigates the ethical impact of ICTs on human life and society.
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Big Data, Human Development and Valuing Voices: Innovation and Ethical Challenges in the Work of Africa’s Voices Foundation
Recorded: 8 March 2016
Duration: 01:00:20
Africa's Voices Foundation is a non-profit spin-out from research at Cambridge University’s Centre of Governance and Human Rights that provides expertise for citizen engagement and social data analytics to development and governance actors.
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Big Data and Putting the World’s Vulnerable People on the Map
Recorded: 9 February 2016
Duration: 01:00:41
Discussion of efforts to map the most vulnerable places in the developing world, in order that international and local NGOs and individuals can use the maps and data to better respond to crises affecting the areas.
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Big data, data activism, and the global civil society
Recorded: 26 January 2016
Duration: 01:02:31
This talk uses the lenses of data activism to take a critical approach to civil society's engagement with big data.
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Taha Yasseri discusses the book: Political Turbulence
Recorded: 6 January 2016
Duration: 00:05:01
Taha Yasseri appears on TRT Showcase to discuss his new book: Political Turbulence, coauthored with Helen Margetts, Peter John, and Scott Hale.
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Social Big Data for Policy-making
Recorded: 19 November 2015
Duration: 01:24:45
Helen Margetts, Professor of Society and the Internet at University of Oxford, visits UEA to talk at the Big Data lecture series.
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Governance in the Digital Era
Recorded: 25 June 2015
Duration: 02:05:51
Professor Helen Margetts speaks at the Oxford-HKUST Leadership and Public Policy Series "Global Change and Local Challenges"
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Big Data in Society: OII MSc Option Course
Recorded: 1 June 2015
Duration: 00:05:05
This option course for the OII MSc in "Social Science of the Internet" moves beyond the hype to critically examine the unprecedented opportunities and serious challenges inherent in big data approaches to advancing knowledge.
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Ethics of Biomedical Big Data. Part 1: Introduction
Recorded: 27 April 2015
Duration: 00:05:37
Workshop bringing together expertise to address emerging challenges in the field, and the requirements for a European framework for ethical usage of biomedical Big Data.
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Ethics of Biomedical Big Data. Part 2: Luciano Floridi
Recorded: 27 April 2015
Duration: 00:21:51
Workshop bringing together expertise to address emerging challenges in the field, and the requirements for a European framework for ethical usage of biomedical Big Data.
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Ethics of Biomedical Big Data. Part 3: Brent Mittelstadt
Recorded: 27 April 2015
Duration: 00:19:29
Workshop bringing together expertise to address emerging challenges in the field, and the requirements for a European framework for ethical usage of biomedical Big Data.
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A Definition of Big Data from The Oxford Internet Institute (OII) with Professor Ralph Schroeder
Recorded: 16 July 2014
Duration: 00:02:30
What is 'big data'? The OII's Ralph Schroeder discusses.
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Big Data, Small Patterns, and Huge Ethical Issues: Discussion and Feedback
Recorded: 16 April 2014
Duration: 00:34:35
Luciano Floridi leads a BJET-Wiley Seminar on "Big Data, Small Patterns, and Huge Ethical Issues".
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The Real-Time City? Big Data and Smart Urbanism (OII Bellwether Lectures)
Recorded: 28 March 2014
Duration: 00:54:53
In this lecture, Professor Kitchin will discuss how cities are being instrumented with digital devices and infrastructure that produce ‘big data’.
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Big Data, Small Patterns, and Huge Ethical Issues
Recorded: 1 March 2014
Duration: 01:39:41
Luciano Floridi leads a BJET-Wiley Seminar on "Big Data, Small Patterns, and Huge Ethical Issues".
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Freedom Online Conference 2013: Privacy and data protection: the challenges of big data
Recorded: 17 June 2013
Duration: 01:15:43
Dr Ian Brown contributes in a workshop on "Privacy and data protection: the challenges of big data" at the Freedom Online Conference in Tunis in June 2013.
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Big Data – The Book
Recorded: 29 January 2013
Duration: 00:03:00
"Big Data" introduces you to the recent bestselling book by Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Kenneth Cukier.
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Quantitative Methods in Social Media Research: Big Data
Recorded: 26 September 2012
Duration: 00:29:43
Ralph Schroeder discusses very large datasets during a seminar on quantitative methods in social media research held at the OII on 26 September 2012. What do we gain and lose with big data? How is big data changing the way we do research?
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Potential and Challenges of Big Data for Public Policy-Making (IPP 2012 Plenary Panel)
Recorded: 21 September 2012
Duration: 01:00:14
Panellists discuss the opportunities and challenges posed by big data for research and public policy-making at the conference "IPP2012: Big Data: Big Challenges".
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Big Data and Their Problem
Recorded: 26 June 2012
Duration: 00:27:26
Luciano Floridi discusses how the digital revolution has brought information technologies and people closer and how this affects the future (VINT Symposium 2012: Recorded Future).
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Privacy and Publicity in the Context of Big Data (Conference Keynote)
Recorded: 21 September 2011
Duration: 00:43:51
danah boyd and Kate Crawford discuss privacy and publicity in the context of big data, in their keynote address from the 2011 iCS-OII conference.