Big data business models: Challenges and opportunities

R Schroeder - Cogent Social Sciences, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
This paper, based on 28 interviews from a range of business leaders and practitioners,
examines the current state of big data use in business, as well as the main opportunities and …

Crowd-sourcing the smart city: Using big geosocial media metrics in urban governance

M Zook - Big Data & Society, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Using Big Data to better understand urban questions is an exciting field with challenging
methodological and theoretical problems. It is also, however, potentially troubling when Big …

The 'actually existing smart city'

T Shelton, M Zook, A Wiig - Cambridge journal of regions …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
This paper grounds the critique of the 'smart city'in its historical and geographical context.
Adapting Brenner and Theodore's notion of 'actually existing neoliberalism', we suggest a …

[HTML][HTML] The role of administrative data in the big data revolution in social science research

R Connelly, CJ Playford, V Gayle, C Dibben - Social science research, 2016 - Elsevier
The term big data is currently a buzzword in social science, however its precise meaning is
ambiguous. In this paper we focus on administrative data which is a distinctive form of big …

Trust in data science: Collaboration, translation, and accountability in corporate data science projects

S Passi, SJ Jackson - Proceedings of the ACM on human-computer …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
The trustworthiness of data science systems in applied and real-world settings emerges from
the resolution of specific tensions through situated, pragmatic, and ongoing forms of work …

Feminist digital geographies

S Elwood, A Leszczynski - Gender, Place & Culture, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
At a moment when disciplinary attentions are turning to the digital as a subject and object of
geographic inquiry, we consider enduring contours and new directions in feminist digital …

The feeling of numbers: Emotions in everyday engagements with data and their visualisation

H Kennedy, RL Hill - Sociology, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
This article highlights the role that emotions play in engagements with data and their
visualisation. To date, the relationship between data and emotions has rarely been noted, in …

Speculative futures: Cities, data, and governance beyond smart urbanism

A Leszczynski - Environment and Planning A: Economy and …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
In this paper, I examine the convergence of big data and urban governance beyond the
discursive and material contexts of the smart city. I argue that in addition to understanding …

Just good enough data: Figuring data citizenships through air pollution sensing and data stories

J Gabrys, H Pritchard, B Barratt - Big data & society, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Citizen sensing, or the use of low-cost and accessible digital technologies to monitor
environments, has contributed to new types of environmental data and data practices …

The future of work in the 'sharing economy'. Market efficiency and equitable opportunities or unfair precarisation?

C Codagnone, F Abadie, F Biagi - … , Science for Policy report by the …, 2016 - papers.ssrn.com
This critical and scoping review essay analyses digital labour markets where labour-
intensive services are traded by matching requesters (employers and/or consumers) and …