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Changing how we think about administrative data
We’ve asked our #DataImpactFellows to write a post on the theme of ‘change’. Janet Bowstead explores how administrative data can support research and how a new approach to them ma...
Change… a word more relevant now than ever
We’ve asked our #DataImpactFellows to write a post on the theme of ‘change’. Anne Alarilla shares an open and personal reflection of change in a time of pandemic.
Revised deadline and the full judging panel: update on the UK Data Service 2020 Dissertation Award
Jen Buckley introduces the judging panel for the UK Data Service 2020 Dissertation Award and updates us on a revised deadline for applying.
British Red Cross Covid-19 Vulnerability Index Map
Neil Dymond-Green investigates the British Red Cross’ work on producing a Covid-19 Vulnerability Index and associated mapping.
Demographic inference and corrections for non-representativeness when working with multilingual social media data
Dr. Fabian Flöck presents a new state of the art for inferring demographic attributes of social media profiles with deep learning in 32 languages. In a paper from last year he showed with colleague...
How web-scraping for Covid-19 data could inform policy
Diarmuid McDonnell discusses how social scientists can access real-time datasets on the Covid-19 outbreak, and how this data might be used to inform policy relating to the crisis.