Big Data and Society 2015 - COMM3409

Course presentations include:
Week 1 - Introduction - Counting
Week 2 - Big Data
Week 3 - Small Data – Census, Administrative data and Mapping
Week 4 - Sorting – Forms, loyalty cards, classification and geodemographics
Week 5 - Prediction - Credit, Policing, Algorithmic Governance
Week 6 - Sensors – Wearables, LBS, IoT/UbiComp/Smart City
Week 7 - Earth Observation – Satellites, Radar, GNSS – GPS/Galileo and UAVs/Drones

Week 8 - User Generated Content - Citizen Science, Crowdsourcing & Volunteered Geographic Information
Week 9 - Data-Based Activism
Week 10 - Command and Control - Indicators, Benchmarks, Dashboards and Control Rooms
Week 11 - Data as Cultural Artifacts and Remembering - Portals, Library Databases and Archives
Week 12 - Critical Data Studies
Week 13 - Making Sense of it all and Review