Course: Big Data: Measuring And Predicting Human Behaviour

We’ve seen that more financially related words performed better in our trading strategy than less financially related words. However, Internet users search for many different topics online. Is financial relatedness …

How do protests evolve? Can we anticipate a burst of protests? In this talk, Neil describes the dynamics of protests, and explains in more detail how data from Facebook can …

We’ve talked about how crime can spread through time and space. However, we know that the time it can take to get from one point to another in a city …

If you were in charge of a police force, how would you choose where to locate your police resources in order to reduce crime? Watch this video to discover how …

What does your mobile phone know about you? What can wearable technology such as Google Glass be used to measure? In this video, Paul Lukowicz explains how data from smartphones …

Making good decisions requires us not only to make our best possible guess about what is going on in the world right now, but also to make our best estimate …

What can data from public transport smart cards and a game built on Google Maps tell us about life in the city? Daniele Quercia shares results from his research, drawing …

To get us started, here’s an example of the kind of research we’ve been doing with this new “big data”. Something which we’ve been particularly fascinated with is data from …