- Title Pages
- List of figures, tables and boxes
- Notes on contributors
- Foreword
- Preface
- General introduction
-
Part I How data are changing:Part I editors:Humphrey Southall andJeff Evans -
1 Statistical work: the changing occupational landscape -
2 The creation and use of big administrative data -
3 Data analytics -
4 Social media data -
Part II Counting in a globalised world:Part II editors:Sally Ruane andJeff Evans -
5 Adult skills surveys and transnational organisations: globalising educational policy -
6 Using survey data: towards valid estimates of poverty in the South -
7 Counting the population in need of international protection globally -
8 Tax justice and the challenges of measuring illicit financial flows -
Part III Statistics and the changing role of the state:Part III editors:Sally Ruane andHumphrey Southall -
9 The control and ‘fitness for purpose’ of UK official statistics -
10 The statistics of devolution -
11 Welfare reform: national policies with local impacts -
12 From ‘welfare’ to ‘workfare’, and back again? Social insecurity and the changing role of the state -
13 Access to data and NHS privatisation: reducing public accountability -
Part IV Economic life: Part IV editors:Humphrey Southall ,Sally Ruane andJeff Evans -
14 The ‘distribution question’: measuring and evaluating trends in inequality -
15 Labour market statistics -
16 The financial system: money makes the world go around -
17 The difficulty of building comprehensive tax avoidance data -
18 Tax and spend decisions: did austerity improve financial numeracy and literacy? -
Part V Inequalities in health and wellbeing: Part V editors:Sally Ruane andHumphrey Southall -
19 Health divides -
20 Measuring social wellbeing -
21 Re-engineering health policy research to measure equity impacts -
22 The Generation Game: ending the phoney information war between young and old -
Part VI Advancing social progress through critical statistical literacy: Part VI editors:Jeff Evans ,Sally Ruane andHumphrey Southall -
23 The Radical Statistics Group: using statistics for progressive social change -
24 Lyme disease politics and evidence‑based policy making in the UK -
25 Counting the uncounted: contestations over casualisation data in Australian universities -
26 The quantitative crisis in UK sociology -
27 Critical statistical literacy and interactive data visualisations -
28 Full Fact -
29 What a difference a dataset makes? Data journalism and/as data activism - Epilogue: progressive ways ahead
- Index
Data analytics
Data analytics
- Chapter:
- (p.35) 3 Data analytics
- Source:
- Data in Society
- Author(s):
Ifan Shepherd
Gary Hearne
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
Data analytics have emerged in recent years as a family of overlapping, competing and hybridising products and practices. They have been championed by technology companies, academics, business users and governments alike, and in a short period of time have earned business developers and adopters billions of pounds in revenue and unprecedented levels of market domination. Data analytics have also provided distinct benefits in terms of an increasing democratisation of digital tools, but at the same time are giving rise to increasing levels of societal and governmental concern. This chapter has four aims: to help intelligent outsiders and old school data analysts make sense of the many competing methodologies and technologies that inhabit the data analytics ecosystem; to assist readers understand which of the many techniques and methodologies represent genuine additions to the state of the art rather than simply old wine in new bottles; to provide a brief overview of the software tools currently available for data analytics; and to identify societal issues and concerns that attend this family of technical and social practices, and the extent to which they are being adequately addressed by developers, users and society at large.
Keywords: Data analytics, machine learning, digital data, analytics software, data ethics
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- Title Pages
- List of figures, tables and boxes
- Notes on contributors
- Foreword
- Preface
- General introduction
-
Part I How data are changing:Part I editors:Humphrey Southall andJeff Evans -
1 Statistical work: the changing occupational landscape -
2 The creation and use of big administrative data -
3 Data analytics -
4 Social media data -
Part II Counting in a globalised world:Part II editors:Sally Ruane andJeff Evans -
5 Adult skills surveys and transnational organisations: globalising educational policy -
6 Using survey data: towards valid estimates of poverty in the South -
7 Counting the population in need of international protection globally -
8 Tax justice and the challenges of measuring illicit financial flows -
Part III Statistics and the changing role of the state:Part III editors:Sally Ruane andHumphrey Southall -
9 The control and ‘fitness for purpose’ of UK official statistics -
10 The statistics of devolution -
11 Welfare reform: national policies with local impacts -
12 From ‘welfare’ to ‘workfare’, and back again? Social insecurity and the changing role of the state -
13 Access to data and NHS privatisation: reducing public accountability -
Part IV Economic life: Part IV editors:Humphrey Southall ,Sally Ruane andJeff Evans -
14 The ‘distribution question’: measuring and evaluating trends in inequality -
15 Labour market statistics -
16 The financial system: money makes the world go around -
17 The difficulty of building comprehensive tax avoidance data -
18 Tax and spend decisions: did austerity improve financial numeracy and literacy? -
Part V Inequalities in health and wellbeing: Part V editors:Sally Ruane andHumphrey Southall -
19 Health divides -
20 Measuring social wellbeing -
21 Re-engineering health policy research to measure equity impacts -
22 The Generation Game: ending the phoney information war between young and old -
Part VI Advancing social progress through critical statistical literacy: Part VI editors:Jeff Evans ,Sally Ruane andHumphrey Southall -
23 The Radical Statistics Group: using statistics for progressive social change -
24 Lyme disease politics and evidence‑based policy making in the UK -
25 Counting the uncounted: contestations over casualisation data in Australian universities -
26 The quantitative crisis in UK sociology -
27 Critical statistical literacy and interactive data visualisations -
28 Full Fact -
29 What a difference a dataset makes? Data journalism and/as data activism - Epilogue: progressive ways ahead
- Index
