Talk: “Mapping Issues with the Web: An Introduction to Digital Methods”,...
Update, 18th September 2014: Professor Bruno Latour has offered to act as respondent to our talk, and will also join us for subsequent discussion. The abstract below has been updated accordingly. Later...
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New research project to map the impact of open budget data
I’m pleased to announce a new research project to examine the impact of open budget data, undertaken as a collaboration between Open Knowledge and the Digital Methods Initiative at the University of...
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Talks at “Policy-Making in the Big Data Era” conference, University of...
On Wednesday I will give three papers at the Policy-Making in the Big Data Era conference at the University of Cambridge. One paper will argue for a broadening of the politics of public information...
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New Report: “Open Budget Data: Mapping the Landscape”
How might changing the way that information about public money is organised, circulated and utilised in society shape the character of democratic engagement and political accountability in...
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Talk: “Ways of Seeing Data: Towards a Critical Literacy for Data...
Yesterday I gave a presentation on “Ways of Seeing Data” at the Digital Methods Winter School Mini-Conference at the University of Amsterdam. The presentation was based on a forthcoming publication...
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Panel on Data Infrastructures and their Publics at “Evidence and the Politics...
As part of my new role as Prize Fellow at the University of Bath, I’m organising a panel on data infrastructures and their publics at a conference on “Evidence and the Politics of Policymaking” this...
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Talk: “What Can Data Journalists and Digital Researchers Learn from Each...
Photo from Alberto Cairo. Today Liliana Bounegru and I gave a talk on what data journalists and digital researchers can learn from each other. This is part of a symposium on “Digital Humanities + Data...
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Digital Methods Winter School 2017 on “Data Infrastructures: Database...
I’m involved in co-organising the 2017 edition of the annual Digital Methods Initiative Winter School which is on the theme of “Data Infrastructures: Database Stories, Dumps and Query Driven...
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Analysing Amnesty International’s Urgent Action Database
Amnesty International have just published the results of a data sprint about their historical database of Urgent Actions, which I coordinated as part of the Digital Methods Initiative Summer School...
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Call for Papers: “Digital Methods for Public Policy”, International...
I’m involved in organising a panel on “Digital Methods for Public Policy” at the International Conference on Public Policy, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore,...
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Call for Collaborators: “A Field Guide to Fake News”
We’re pleased to announce a new project to create “A Field Guide to Fake News”, led by myself, Liliana Bounegru and Tommaso Venturini. It will be launched at the International Journalism Festival in...
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Hello Public Data Lab
Apart from working on my Data Worlds book, one of the things that I’ve been doing as part of my Prize Fellowship at the University of Bath is working to set up a new trans-national,...
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Panel on “Digital Methods for Public Policy” at International Conference on...
How is “born digital” data being repurposed in the context of public policy research and practice? Tomorrow I’ll be chairing a panel on “Digital Methods for Public Policy” at the International...
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Joining King’s College London as Lecturer in Critical Infrastructure Studies
This has been under wraps for a while, but it has just been publicly announced that I’ll be joining the Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College London as Lecturer in Critical Infrastructure...
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Call for Papers: “Data Worlds? Public Imagination and Public Experimentation...
A call for papers has just been published for our panel on “Data Worlds? Public Imagination and Public Experimentation with Data Infrastructures” at EASST2018 which takes place on 25-28th July 2018 at...
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New edition of Data Journalism Handbook to explore journalistic interventions...
The first edition of The Data Journalism Handbook has been widely used and widely cited by students, practitioners and researchers alike, serving as both textbook and sourcebook for an emerging field....
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Publication: A Field Guide to “Fake News” and Other Information Disorders
Today sees the launch of A Field Guide to “Fake News” and Other Information Disorders, a new free and open access resource to help students, journalists and researchers investigate misleading content,...
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New Project: MiniVAN for the Visual Analysis of Networks
I’m happy to announce that the Public Data Lab has received funding from Sage Publishing to develop a project called MiniVAN. This will be a simple tool to facilitate the visual analysis of networks...
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New Article: “A Reality Check(list) for Digital Methods”
An article titled “A Reality Check(list) for Digital Methods” that I co-authored with with Tommaso Venturini, Liliana Bounegru and Richard Rogers has just been published in New Media & Society ....
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New Project: “Save Our Air”
Today the Public Data Lab is launching its Save Our Air project, which explores how data can be used to attend to and assemble people around different aspects of air pollution. As well as focusing on...
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