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Open data dive: Plastic use reduction
We were pleased to run a Data Dive on 6th July, together with Methods at Manchester. The challenge was: Local to global: The data in plastic, from single use carrier bags to international emissions...
How to: Cite Data
Scientific work is associated with many citations. Literature presents only one of many types of sources. But how does one cite data correctly?
EOSC-Pillar: New EU project on Open Science in Europe starts
EOSC-Pillar will help to build the European Open Science Cloud, one of the most ambitious research infrastructure initatives of our time. AUSSDA at the Vienna University Library leads a work packag...
Data in the classroom. Learning statistics using real examples.
Ana Morales-Gomez explores the ways that data from the UK Data Service collection can be used with students in the classroom.
Merit or ‘fit’? The class ceiling: social mobility and why it pays to be privileged – through the lens of the UK Labour Force Survey
Daniel Laurison, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Swarthmore College and Sam Friedman, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, LSE assert that class analysis needs an approach which regist...
It’s not such ‘A Fair Way Off’ to process open data: Facing requirements on open access and the FAIR data principles.
Sebastian Netscher from GESIS – Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences explores the FAIR data principles and how they can support increasing transparency in research.