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In the fifth edition of our monthly big data and social research newsletter, we explore the SAGE/Campaign for Social Science lecture that was delivered by Beth Simone Noveck, director of The Governance Lab at NYU and former U.S. Deputy Chief Technology Officer, in November. We also highlight a recent LSE Impact blog post written by our very own Katie Metzler, Head of Methods Innovation, about the big data skills gap in the social sciences.   

In the latest edition of the Big Data and Social Research Newsletter, we highlight the Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis 2017, sponsored by SAGE Publishing, which has several courses of interest to social scientists working with big data. We also share news of MethodSpace’s new Big Data Hub, a community space dedicated to the discussion and advancement of big data analysis. Find out more in the latest edition.  

In this month’s Big Data Newsletter, SAGE is offering readers a free course from SAGE Campus: Introduction to Big Data for Social Scientists. This short course explores how large-scale datasets and computational methods are changing social research, providing users with answers to frequently asked big data questions.

You can also catch up on our latest data science webinars! If you missed out on the Python and R webinars, you can watch the recordings for free here:

Los Angeles, CA - US adults and adolescents are now significantly more accepting of mothers who work fulltime, but a growing minority from younger generations believe that wives should mind the household and husbands should make decisions for the family, according to new research out today in the Psychology of Women Quarterly (a SAGE journal).

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This month SAGE Publishing took to the stage as part of the ESRC’S Festival of Social Science, looking at the impact of big data on social research. You can watch a full video of the panel debate in our latest Big Data and Social Research newsletter below.

Already planning your activities for 2017? Well look now further- we have also done a quick roundup of some of next year’s computational social science summer schools and workshops, find out more in the latest edition.

This month's Big Data Newsletter shares the news that the 2018 Summer Institute in Computational Social Science has launched. The event will include lectures, group problem sets, and participant-led research projects and is aimed at both social scientists and data scientists and will be held at Duke University in mid-June.

UCL and Sage Publishing have teamed up to offer you and your students free unlimited access to 96 of our premium textbook titles in eTextbook format, available through your library.

The titles range from discipline specific textbooks, to Research Methods and Study Skills books. All you have to do is look up one of the titles on offer on the UCL library page and you can access it, on or off campus.

The rise of vast data sets and the emergence of new technologies is changing social science research. To support researchers develop new computational social science skills and access and work with data at a scale previously unimaginable, SAGE Publishing has launched SAGE Ocean.