Turing Lecture: Information manipulation
Wednesday 16 Jan 2019
Time: 18:00 - 20:30
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Social data science
Data and inequality - we, the users: technologies of our future and who they serve
Thursday 21 Jun 2018
Time: 16:00 - 17:30
Data and inequality: Towards data justice?
Monday 09 Jul 2018
Time: 16:00 - 17:30
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
Urban Analytics Data Dive
Tuesday 25 Jul 2017 - Wednesday 26 Jul 2017
Time: 18:38
Urban Analytics
Thursday 07 Jul 2016 - Friday 08 Jul 2016
Time: 18:38
Turing Lecture: Smarter cities
Tuesday 22 Nov 2016
Time: 13:30 - 17:00
Turing Lecture: Big data and the Met Office and 21st Century problems
Friday 14 Oct 2016
Time: 13:30 - 16:00
Turing data science class: Social data science (introduction)
Monday 06 Nov 2017
Time: 17:38
Projects
The (mis)informed citizen
Using computational approaches to evaluate the quality of online news and studying its impacts
Language models for quantitative science studies
Developing models to represent the use of language in research and improve performance of specific tasks, including the retrieval and summarisation of literature
Spatial inequality and the smart city
Identifying and improving observed inequalities in cities, through the investigation of smart city technologies and evolving spatial demographics
Understanding the changing world of work
Understanding how firm specialisation has changed the employment opportunities of different kinds of workers
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
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
Publications and software
Social interaction effects on immigrant integration
In recent years Italy has been involved in massive migration flows and, consequently, migrant...
Elena Agliari, Adriano Barra, Pierluigi Contucci, Andrea Pizzoferrato & Cecilia Vernia Palgrave Communications; volume 4, Article number: 55 (2018)
Characterizing Eve: Analysing Cybercrime Actors in a Large Underground Forum
Underground forums contain many thousands of active users, but the vast majority will be...
Pastrana, S., Hutchings, A., Caines, A., & Buttery, P. (2018). Characterizing Eve: Analysing cybercrime actors in a large underground forum. Heraklion: The 21st International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses (RAID).
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
Events
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
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Yueting Han
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Yu Chen
Enrichment Student
Yara Kyrychenko
Enrichment Student
Vanessa Cheung
Enrichment Student
Sandrine Chausson
Enrichment Student
Raman Dutt
Enrichment Student
Mariel Alem Fonseca
Enrichment Student
Maoran Sun
Enrichment Student