Showcasing research from the Culture & Creativity Research Institute at Sheffield Hallam University
Showcasing research from the Culture & Creativity Research Institute at Sheffield Hallam University
Title: Me and my big data: developing citizens data literacy Speaker: Dr Eleanor Lockley (Research Fellow) Date and time: Wednesday 5th February 2020, 1pm-2pm Abstract This seminar will provide an overview of the Me and My Big Data project which seeks to understand the levels of and variations in UK citizens data literacy. The “Cambridge Analytica” scandal made clear the […]
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Title: A Big Data Approach to Expounding Triggers of Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Indicators Date and time: Wednesday 16 October 2019, 1pm-2pm Speaker: Dr Kassim S Mwitondi (Senior Lecturer in Applied Statistics/Data Mining, Sheffield Hallam University) Abstract Technological advances in computing power and explosions in data generation, continue to trigger data–intensive research and related activities across disciplines, through, inter–alia, different […]
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Speaker: Dr Suvodeep Mazumdar (Lecturer in Computing at Sheffield Hallam University) Title: Towards smarter cities: empowering citizens, engaging communities The essence of a city is its citizens and communities. A city’s infrastructure and associated services play a vital role in citizens’ day to day living and their overall quality of life. Gathering data in a traditional approach, i.e. using precise physical […]
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Title: Finding the ‘Social’ in Social Media Data: a Discourse Approach to the Analysis of Big Data Speaker: Dr Photini Vrikki, Brunel University London Date and time: Wednesday 28th March 2018, 1pm-2pm Hosted by: Dr Anandi Ramamurthy In recent years, scientists within and beyond established fields of what is considered social sciences and the humanities have begun engaging with new […]
Read moreProfessor of Cross-Disciplinary Art at Sheffield Hallam University Lise Autogena has been invited as an expert speaker by the Science Development Centre of the European Union’s Joint Research Centre to give two keynote presentations on the subject of Big Data and Digital Transformation. Lise will be joined by long-term artistic collaborator Josua Portway at The Preparatory Workshop for Resonances III on 20 October 2017 at […]
Read moreExperimenting with Social Data is a one-and-a-half day Copenhagen Centre for Social Data Science (SODAS) workshop at University of Copenhagen (UCPH) on 14 and 15 September 2017. The recent rise of massive digital trace datasets in the social sciences (‘social big data’) has served in part to re-actualize notions and practices of ‘the experiment’ and experimentation (including self-experimentation), as well […]
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In a recent visit to Tamil Nadu, India for a conference and data collection field work, Computing PhD student Vigneshraj Ramachandran Subramanian was invited to deliver a guest lecture in his area of research. He was honoured at the Tamil University, Thanjavur, India on 15th August 2015 for his contribution in the field of Tamil Computing. His interview on ‘Big data in […]
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Title: Application of Big Data for National Security: A practioner’s guide to Emerging Technologies Editors: Babak Akhgar, Andrew Staniforth, Francesca Bosco Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann Publication date: 17 Feb 2015 Number of pages: 316 ISBN-13: 978-0128019672 Application of Big Data for National Security provides users with state-of-the-art concepts, methods, and technologies for Big Data analytics in the fight against terrorism and crime, including a wide […]
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