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Department of Methodology Inaugural Lecture The Challenge of Big Data for the Social Sciences Kenneth Cukier Professor Kenneth Benoit Professor of Quantitative Social Research Data Editor, Methods, LSE The Economist Professor Simon Hix Chair, LSE Suggested hashtag for Twitter users: #LSEdata

Big Data rerum cognoscere causas In response to Ken Benoit’s Department of Methodology Inaugural Lecture on The Challenge of Big Data for the Social Sciences Kenneth Cukier Data Editor, The Economist Co-author “Big Data: A revolution that will transform how we live, work and think” London School of Economics and Political Science, February 15, 2015

BIG DATA?

Source: "The World’s Technological Capacity to Store, Communicate, and Compute Information," Martin Hilbert, Priscila López, Science, 1 April 2011: Vol. 332 no. 6025 pp. 60-65

predict | explain gft

Source: D. Lazer, R. Kennedy, G. King, A. Vespignani. “The Parable of Google Flu: Traps in Big Data Analysis,” Science, vol. 343, March 14, 2014

n=all

Source: Manolis Kellis, “Importance of Access to Large Populations,” Big Data Privacy Workshop: Advancing the State of the Art in Technology and Practice, Cambridge, MA, March 3, 2014

knowledge

ethics, law and technology

Samsung Smart TV George Orwell, 1984 privacy policy

change people & organizations

thank you KennethCukier@Economist.com @kncukier

Department of Methodology Inaugural Lecture The Challenge of Big Data for the Social Sciences Kenneth Cukier Professor Kenneth Benoit Professor of Quantitative Social Research Data Editor, Methods, LSE The Economist Professor Simon Hix Chair, LSE Suggested hashtag for Twitter users: #LSEdata