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Department of Methodology Inaugural Lecture
The Challenge of Big Data for the Social Sciences
Professor Kenneth Benoit Professor of Quantitative Social Research Methods, LSE
Professor Simon Hix Chair, LSE
Kenneth Cukier
Data Editor, The Economist
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Big Data rerum cognoscere causas
In response to Ken Benoit’s Department of Methodology Inaugural
Lecture on The Challenge of Big Data for the Social Sciences
Kenneth Cukier Data Editor, The Economist Co-author “Big Data: A revolution that will transform how we live, work and think” London School of Economics and Political Science, February 15, 2015
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BIG DATA?
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Source: "The World’s Technological Capacity to Store, Communicate, and Compute Information," Martin Hilbert, Priscila López, Science, 1 April 2011: Vol. 332 no. 6025 pp. 60-65
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predict | explain gft
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Source: D. Lazer, R. Kennedy, G. King, A. Vespignani. “The Parable of Google Flu: Traps in Big Data Analysis,” Science, vol. 343, March 14, 2014
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n=all
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Source: Manolis Kellis, “Importance of Access to Large Populations,” Big Data Privacy Workshop: Advancing the State of the Art in Technology and Practice, Cambridge, MA, March 3, 2014
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knowledge
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ethics, law and technology
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Samsung Smart TV privacy policy
George Orwell, 1984
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change
people & organizations
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Suggested hashtag for Twitter users: #LSEdata
Department of Methodology Inaugural Lecture
The Challenge of Big Data for the Social Sciences
Professor Kenneth Benoit Professor of Quantitative Social Research Methods, LSE
Professor Simon Hix Chair, LSE
Kenneth Cukier
Data Editor, The Economist