data
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Brain power
Has poor data usage undermined the pandemic response?
Research suggests that the UK has been poor in its use of data to gain real-time understanding of the spread…
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COVID-19 coronavirus
What Twitter can tell us about the health of a community
While Twitter doesn’t provide a representative sample of the population, it can nonetheless reveal useful data.
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In the news
How free data can transform innovation
The EU’s recently published data strategy is based in the principle that data should be available to all.
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COVID-19 coronavirus
Simple data visualisations have become key to communicating about the COVID-19 pandemic, but we know little about their impact
Visual representations of data are playing a significant role in COVID-19 communication, so the public’s ability to make sense of…
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Brain power
People are happy to share data if it improves government service
A majority of survey respondents said they are open to sharing their personally identifiable information if it meant a better…
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Book reviews and releases
In a world of dark data, knowing what we don’t know is key
The new book Dark Data explores the data we don’t have, and the complications this brings to our ability to…
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Brain power
How Twitter can help track the spread of COVID-19
The data can potentially reveal valuable and unique knowledge in regard to the pandemic, whether on the movement of people,…
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Brain power
Will we ever be empowered with our own data?
There is a growing sense that the scales have tipped too far in the direction of the tech giants, which…
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Brain power
Data ethics – making it real
If data and its applications are badly managed, people can suffer harm as a result of bad decisions, thoughtless design,…
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2018’s top 100 journal articles
Many Analysts, One Data Set: Making Transparent How Variations in Analytic Choices Affect Results [Top 100 journal articles of 2018]
The findings of this study show how researchers can vary in their analytic approaches, and how results can vary according…