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Algorithms and ghosts

  • 29 September 2020

Stuart Mills concludes his series on data policy theory, exploring simulcara, doppelgangers and how much we really exist in a virtual world.

Data-driven decision-making and personalised nudging

  • 10 June 2020

Stuart Mills continues his series on data policy theory, focusing on the opportunities and problems of nudging.

How web-scraping for Covid-19 data could inform policy

  • 16 April 2020

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.

Transacting with data? Laissez-faire ownership and a political theory of data (part 2)

  • 2 April 2020

Stuart Mills continues his series on data policy theory, exploring data as a resource and how it is shared or traded.

Transacting with data? Laissez-faire ownership and a political theory of data (part 1)

  • 17 March 2020

Stuart Mills continues his series on data policy theory, exploring data as a resource and how it is shared or traded.

Why is understanding trade union membership from survey data harder than it might first seem?

  • 24 February 2020

Rhys Davies explores how he uncovered problems with official UK government figures on trade union presence and coverage – and how the government recognised and corrected the error.

Developing a new way of measuring poverty

  • 11 February 2020

Emily Harris and Matthew Oakley from the Social Metrics Commission’s Secretariat introduce the release of the code underlying the Commission’s new poverty measure.

The philosophical theory of data

  • 10 December 2019

Stuart Mills continues his series on data policy theory, concentrating here on different views to what data are.

Who does and should receive value from data flows? A philosophical perspective

  • 8 November 2019

Stuart Mills asks; how do we balance the societal transformations we can see as a result of digital technology and data with the political economy which persists within that same society?

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