| Radical data for radical research: Tracking and tracing Royal Statistical Society, Errol Street, London EC1Y 8LX Wednesday 9 May 2007 |
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This seminar asks how research is able to use data produced as a by-product of day-to-day transactions, for example from use of mobile phones, CCTV footage or from loyalty cards. It is being organised jointly by the ESRC e-Society Programme, the ESRC Research Methods Programme and Chimera, University of Essex.
| 10.15 | Welcome and introduction: Angela Dale, University of Manchester , Director RMP |
| Chair: Roger Burrows, University of York , Director ESRC e-Society Programme | |
| 10.30 | Martin Evans, University of Cardiff The data-informed marketing model and its social responsibility |
| 11.00 | Discussion |
| 11.15 | Coffee |
| 11.45 | Richard Webber, UCL Using names to code individuals on surveys and other files by their |
| 12.15 | Andy Crabtree, NcESS Digital Records Research node, University of Nottingham |
| 12.45 | Discussion |
| 1.00 | Lunch |
| Chair: Ben Anderson, Deputy Director, Chimera, University of Essex | |
| 1.45 | Rob Ackland, Australian National University (NCeSS Visiting Fellow) Using large-scale web crawl data to investigate relationships between Australian interest groups |
| 2.15 | Dana Diminescu and Christian Licoppe (ENST) Zbigniew Smoreda and Cezary Ziemlicki ( France Telecom R&D) |
| 2.45 | Alan Penn, UCL Constructing co-presence networks in space, bluetooth and space syntax analysis. |
| 3.15 | Discussion |
| 3.30 | Tea |
| 4.00 | Mike Savage, University of Manchester Reflections on the rise of transactional data in social research |
| 4.30 | Discussion and conclusions |
| 5.00 | End |
