18. Sense about Data Science
Thanks to a recommendation from Tracey Gyateng of DataKind, I went along to the launch of ‘Data science: a guide for society’ from Sense about Science, an independent campaigning charity that challenges the misrepresentation of science and evidence in public life. The purpose of the guide is to equip people with the tools they need […]
17. Methodological Playgrounds
I first heard the term methodological playground in 2014, from Institute for Education’s Professor Carey Jewitt. She was talking about her work with digital artists and social researchers, synthesizing methods to open up different perspectives, generate imaginative research questions, and create a wider range of research tools. Around that time I was working on an […]
9. A pause for tips on evaluation
This post is a short detour from the Big Data path, and a brain dump of ways of working I find to be helpful when commissioning an evaluation, or responding to an ITT to deliver an evaluation (if you have ever asked me for advice then it will look familiar!). As I started to explore […]
3. Challenges & opportunities with big data
The American Evaluation Association 2015 Conference salon on big data and evaluation sent a clear message that big data is an addition to the tool box, leading to evolution in evaluation, rather than revolution against traditional methods and approaches to scientific inquiry (more detail here). Pages 4-12 of this report, from Aspen Institute’s roundtable on […]