Projects
Policy priority inference
Developing computational and network methods to advise governments on the policy priorities needed to reach socioeconomic development goals
Vote trading networks
Building network science and data science methods to uncover hidden cooperation in democratic institutions
Crowdsourced and citizen science
Establishing best practice guidelines for gathering and analysing data from crowdsourced and citizen science experiments
Political volatility
Using techniques such as natural language processing to quantify trends and changes in the volatility of public opinion before and after widespread use of social media
Ada Lovelace Institute
Harnessing the power of data, algorithms, and artificial intelligence for social well-being, in partnership with the Nuffield Foundation
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
People
Laura Carter
Enrichment Student
Dr Yanos Zylberberg
Turing Fellow
Susan Banducci
Turing Fellow
Dr David Lopez
Turing Fellow
Dr David Plans
Turing Fellow
Professor David De Roure
Turing Fellow
Dr Bertie Vidgen
Research Fellow
Professor Judy Wajcman
Turing FellowEvents
Turing Lecture: Information manipulation
Wednesday 16 Jan 2019
Time: 18:00 - 20:30
Data and inequality: Towards data justice?
Monday 09 Jul 2018
Time: 16:00 - 17:30
Data and inequality - we, the users: technologies of our future and who they serve
Thursday 21 Jun 2018
Time: 16:00 - 17:30
Data driven modelling of complex systems
Tuesday 08 May 2018 - Thursday 10 May 2018
Time: 10:00 - 18:00
Opportunities to use untapped data science to support social, economic and financial inclusion
Tuesday 01 May 2018 - Wednesday 02 May 2018
Time: 10:00 - 17:00
Data and inequality: Measuring inequality and quantifying the progressivity of public policy
Thursday 29 Mar 2018
Time: 17:00 - 18:30
Protocol to the People? Protocol governance and power - from Bitcoin to the Border Gateway Protocol
Friday 16 Mar 2018
Time: 13:30 - 18:00
European symposium series on societal challenges in computational social science
Wednesday 15 Nov 2017 - Friday 17 Nov 2017
Time: 17:37
Turing data science class: Social data science (introduction)
Monday 06 Nov 2017
Time: 17:38
Publications and software
Workers of the Internet unite? Online freelancer organisation among remote gig economy workers in six Asian and African countries
This article presents findings regarding collective organisation among online freelancers in middle‐income countries. Drawing...
Wood, A. J., Lehdonvirta, V. and Graham, M. (2018), Workers of the Internet unite? Online freelancer organisation among remote gig economy workers in six Asian and African countries. New Technology, Work and Employment, 33: 95-112. doi:10.1111/ntwe.12112
Emo, love and god: making sense of Urban Dictionary, a crowd-sourced online dictionary
The Internet facilitates large-scale collaborative projects and the emergence of Web 2.0 platforms, where...
Nguyen, D, McGillivray, B & Yasseri, T 2018, 'Emo, love and god: making sense of Urban Dictionary, a crowd-sourced online dictionary' Royal Society Open Science, vol 5, pp. 1-16. DOI: 10.1098/rsos.172320