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Suggested hashtag for Twitter users: #LSEdata Department of Methodology Inaugural Lecture The Challenge of Big Data for the Social Sciences Professor Kenneth Benoit Professor of Quantitative Social Research Methods, LSE Professor Simon Hix Chair, LSE Kenneth Cukier Data Editor, The Economist

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Suggested hashtag for Twitter users: #LSEdata

Department of Methodology Inaugural Lecture

The Challenge of Big Data for the Social Sciences

Professor Kenneth Benoit Professor of Quantitative Social Research Methods, LSE

Professor Simon Hix Chair, LSE

Kenneth Cukier

Data Editor, The Economist

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Big Data rerum cognoscere causas

In response to Ken Benoit’s Department of Methodology Inaugural

Lecture on The Challenge of Big Data for the Social Sciences

Kenneth Cukier Data Editor, The Economist Co-author “Big Data: A revolution that will transform how we live, work and think” London School of Economics and Political Science, February 15, 2015

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BIG DATA?

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Source: "The World’s Technological Capacity to Store, Communicate, and Compute Information," Martin Hilbert, Priscila López, Science, 1 April 2011: Vol. 332 no. 6025 pp. 60-65

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predict | explain gft

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Source: D. Lazer, R. Kennedy, G. King, A. Vespignani. “The Parable of Google Flu: Traps in Big Data Analysis,” Science, vol. 343, March 14, 2014

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n=all

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Source: Manolis Kellis, “Importance of Access to Large Populations,” Big Data Privacy Workshop: Advancing the State of the Art in Technology and Practice, Cambridge, MA, March 3, 2014

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knowledge

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ethics, law and technology

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Samsung Smart TV privacy policy

George Orwell, 1984

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change

people & organizations

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thank you

[email protected]

@kncukier

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Suggested hashtag for Twitter users: #LSEdata

Department of Methodology Inaugural Lecture

The Challenge of Big Data for the Social Sciences

Professor Kenneth Benoit Professor of Quantitative Social Research Methods, LSE

Professor Simon Hix Chair, LSE

Kenneth Cukier

Data Editor, The Economist


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