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 […]
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 […]