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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.

Our Dataverse is back - What's new?
From February 17th to March 1st, our data repository at data.aussda.at. was not available. We used this time for improving our data repository and preparing it for the future. Learn more about the...