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DTC Advanced Training Workshop: Socialising Big Data
24 June 2014 | UK Doctoral Students (free)/ Intnl. (£30)
This one-day course is designed for students who want to learn more about the risks, challenges and potentials of working with Big Data.
This will be achieved through illustrations and discussions of collaboratories that have been conducted with practitioners who work with Big Data in three practical contexts: genomics, official statistics and waste management. The workshop will involve both training in how to ask critical questions about Big Data that can be taken up in relation to other substantive and practical contexts as well as the collaboratory as a social science method. Presenters include:
Dr Evelyn Ruppert, Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths PI ESRC Socialising Big Data Project
Prof Penny Harvey, Anthropology and Director of CRESC, University of Manchester
Prof Celia Lury, Sociology and Director, Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, University of Warwick
Dr Ruth McNally, Principal Lecturer, Innovation, Technology and Management, Lord Ashcroft International Business School, Anglia Ruskin University
Contact Dr Stephanie Alice Baker: sa.baker@gold.ac.uk