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What is research impact and why is it so important?
Rachel Oldroyd, UK Data Service Data Impact Fellow and Quantitative Human Geographer at the University of Leeds, shares her perspective on research impact.
Mining data from Impact Case Studies in HEFCE’s REF2014 database
We wanted to grab some data from HEFCE’s API of Impact Case Studies submitted to the REF2014 to find out how many UK Data Service data collections were used in Impact Case Studies in REF2014 –...
Reflections on research data management workshops in Gujarat, India
Louise Corti, Director of Collections Development and Producer Relations at the UK Data Service, updates us on her recent trip to Gandhinagar, India where she ran workshops on research data managem...
Ethics and the alleged misuse of social media data
Libby Bishop, Producer Relations Manager and expert on the ethics of re-using data and informed consent at the UK Data Service, discusses the ethical considerations and the importance of setting st...
Reflections on ‘Encounters with Big Data’, our course in Cape Town
Louise Corti, Director of Collections Development and Producer Relations at the UK Data Service, and Chris Park, Data Scientist, report back from the course, Encounters with Big Data: An Introducti...
Creating a unified 2011 Census dataset for the four nations of the UK
Rob Dymond-Green describes the creation of the 2011 UK Census dataset available through InFuse.