Learning tools for analysing land use Developing the ability to quantitatively understand the complex interplay between the scientific, economic, demographic and other factors that determine land use in the UK
Predicting economic growth from business news Forecasting the UK's economic growth by analysing the positive or negative sentiment of business news
Forecasting with large macroeconomic and financial datasets Improving the ability of widely used economic forecasting models to deal with volatile changes such as those caused by financial crises
Letting text speak to economic data Connecting text-based information to traditional economic measurement systems
Causal effects in social networks Better understanding the effects peers have on each other in social networks
Understanding the changing world of work Understanding how firm specialisation has changed the employment opportunities of different kinds of workers
DSSGx UK summer projects come to a close with special guests On Thursday 3 September, the closing ceremony for the 2020 Summer projects of the... Monday 14 Sep 2020
Understanding human behaviour with online data Investigating whether large online datasets from sources such as Google, Twitter, and photo sharing sites can help measure and predict human behaviour