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The Internet is Big Data: How internet research has changed our understanding of the world
1. The Internet is Big Data
How internet research has changed our
understanding of the world
Ralph Schroeder, Professor & MSc Programme Director
Eric T. Meyer, Research Fellow & DPhil Programme Director @etmeyer
http://www.slideshare.net/etmeyer/2012oiisvco
Silicon Valley Comes to Oxford 20:20 Talk
18 November 2012
3. Introduction
Big Data: Our definition
Big data are data that are unprecedented in scale and scope
in relation to a given phenomenon.
They are often streams of data (rather than fixed datasets),
accumulating large volumes, often at high velocity.
4. Business Value and Academic Value
Strategic Knowledge
• Generally time-limited (with exceptions)
• Value comes from knowing what your competitors don’t
• Often has high monetary value if it can be exploited
5. Business Value and Academic Value
Durable Knowledge
• Less time-limited (with exceptions)
• Value comes from adding to the world’s knowledge (the global
brain is cumulative/scientific)
• Rarely has direct monetary value, but has value in terms of
creating the possibility both of future knowledge and of future
exploitation and commercial uses
6. Mark Graham & Bernie
Hogan’s project
investigated inequalities
in the creation of
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geo-tagged Wikipedia
articles 2011-12
7. Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon et al.
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Source: González-Bailón, S., Banchs, R. E., & Kaltenbrunner, A. (2012). Emotions, Public Opinion, and U.S. Presidential Approval Rates: A 5-Year Analysis of
Online Political Discussions. Human Communication Research, 38(2), 121-143.
8. Twitter-bots
OII master’s students Alexander Furnas and Devin Gaffney saw a large spike in then-US
presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s Twitter followers, and decided to look at the new
followers:
Furnas, A. and Gaffney, D. (2012). ‘Statistical Probability That Mitt Romney's New Twitter Followers Are Just Normal Users: 0%’. The Atlantic, July 31,
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/07/statistical-probability-that-mitt-romneys-new-twitter-followers-are-just-normal-users-0/260539/ (accessed August 31, 2012).
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20. Big Data Analytics
• Cost of analytical tools
• Access to data
• Why should anyone share?
• Skills to use the tools
• How different skills and disciplines work together
• From Big Data to Big (Hi-res) Picture
• Marketing Tailoring
• Forecasting Prediction
• A/B and other experiments
• Complex Trends Linking datasets plus modelling
21. Fishing for Knowledge Data
Trawling the Sea of Bigin a Sea of Information
Image sources (All CC): http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikecogh/6610354927/; http://www.flickr.com/photos/ponyboy101/2278057689/; http://www.flickr.com/photos/buzzhoffman/4140232128/; http://www.flickr.com/photos/circulating/1785350080/
22. Additional readings and references
Bond, Robert et al. (2012). ‘A 61-million-person experiment in social influence and political mobilization’,
Nature 489: 295–298.
Bruns, A. and Liang, Y.E. (2012). ‘Tools and methods for capturing Twitter data during natural disasters’, First
Monday, 17 (4 – 2), http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/viewArticle/3937/3193
Furnas, A. and Gaffney, D. (2012). ‘Statistical Probability That Mitt Romney's New Twitter Followers Are Just
Normal Users: 0%’. The Atlantic, July 31, http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/07/statistical-
probability-that-mitt-romneys-new-twitter-followers-are-just-normal-users-0/260539/ (accessed August 31,
2012).
Giles, J. (2012). ‘Making the Links: From E-mails to Social Networks, the Digital Traces left Life in the
Modern World are Transforming Social Science’, Nature, 488: 448-50.
Kwak, H. et al. (2010). ‘What is Twitter, a Social Network or a News Media?’ Proceedings of the 19th
International World Wide Web (WWW) Conference, April 26-30, 2010, Raleigh NC.
Manyika, J. et al. (2011). ‘Big data: the next frontier for innovation, competition and productivity’, McKinsey
Global Institute, available at: http://www.mckinsey.com/insights/mgi/research/technology_and_innovation/
big_data_the_next_frontier_for_innovation (last accessed August 29, 2012).
Silver, Nate. (2012). The Signal and the Noise: The Art and Science of Prediction. London: Allen Lane.
Tancer, B. (2009). Click: What Millions of People are Doing Online and Why It Matters. New York: Harper
Collins, 2009.
Wu, S. , J.M. Hofman, W.A. Mason, and D.J. Watts, (2011). ‘Who says what to whom on twitter’, Proceedings
of the 20th international conference on World Wide Web. (on Duncan Watts webpage,
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/duncan/, last accessed August 29, 2012).
23. Oxford Internet Institute
Ralph Schroeder Eric T. Meyer
ralph.schroeder@oii.ox.ac.uk eric.meyer@oii.ox.ac.uk
http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/?id=26 http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/?id=120
@etmeyer
http://www.slideshare.net/etmeyer/2012oiisvco
See http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/research/projects/?id=98
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