Links to articles of interest:
The weird Google searches of the unemployed and what they say about the
economy (Washington Post blog – 30 May 2014).
Big Data: Are we making a big mistake? (Financial Times magazine section, 28
March 2014)
In Response to the Financial Times: Mistakes or Misunderstood? Putting Big Data
into Perspective (Response to FT article)
Google Flu Trends is no longer good at predicting flu, scientists find (The
Guardian, 27 March 2014)
Data, data everywhere: Economist, 25 February 2010
Data deluge –Economist, 25 February 2010
Backlash against Big Data: The Economist Explains (20 April 2014)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/leoking/2014/03/29/alarm-over-the-gold-rushfor-citizens-big-data/
Education and data science
Big Data in Education – Economist, 30 April 2014
Coursera (MOOC – Massive Open Online Courses):
https://www.coursera.org/course/datasci
Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA http://www.wpi.edu/academics/datascience.html
Carnegie Mellon University, USA –
http://www.cmu.edu/graduate/data-science/
University College London, UK –
http://www.findamasters.com/search/masters-degree.aspx?course=24381
Edinburgh Centre for Doctoral Training in Data Science –
http://www.scholarships-links.com/viewdetail/5637/10-PhD-places-in-newCentre-for-Doctoral-Training-in-Data-Science.html
Data driven journalism
http://datadrivenjournalism.net/
European Journalism Centre Data Driven Journalism Initative
http://ejc.net/projects/ongoing/data-driven-journalism
Citizens and Big Data
http://asmarterplanet.com/blog/2014/05/bringing-big-data-chicagoscitizens.html
http://bigdataweek.com/2014/04/02/big-data-big-ideas-f-secure-kl-big-datahackathon-2014/
Opinions from Ethnography
http://ethnographymatters.net/blog/2012/05/28/small-data-people-in-a-bigdata-world/
http://ethnographymatters.net/blog/2012/06/11/the-ethnographerscomplete-guide-to-big-data-part-ii-answers/
http://ethnographymatters.net/blog/2012/06/28/the-ethnographerscomplete-guide-to-big-data-part-iii-conclusions/
New Journals:
Big Data and Society
Journal of Big Data
Journal of Data Science