Making Sense of Big Data - Keynote Speech by Mike Savage
Channel: Alexander von Humboldt Institut for internet and society
Date: 08/11/2015

In his talk Mike Savage argues that social scientists are pioneering a new kind of data based analysis which is attracting growing public interest. A number of innovative tools – visualisations, network analysis and ‘relational analysis’ – is reconfiguring the social scientific tool kit.

The keynote dialogue Making sense of big data is the first event in the series Big data: big power shifts?. The evening’s speakers, Professor Mike Savage from the London School of Economics and Isabelle Sonnenfeld, lead of Google’s News Lab in Germany, are both eminent experts in understanding the importance of digital media and big data for modern societies and their study.

The British Embassy Berlin in cooperation with the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG) host this kick-off lecture for the series Big data: big power shifts?, that the Humboldt Institute for Internet and society conducts in cooperation with the Vodafone Institute for Society and Communications.

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