Big Humanities Data Workshop at IEEE Big Data 2013

Humanities ‘ Big Data ’ Myths

This paper argues that there have always been ‘big data’ in the humanities, and challenges commonly held myths in this regard. It does so by discussing the case of transnational research on dispersed communities. Concluding, it examines the lessons humanities and sciences can learn from each other. Keywords—humanities; transnational; diasporas; archives; communities; web resources I. THE THREE ...

Big Data Quality: From Content to Context

Over the last 20 years, and particularly with the advent of Big Data and analytics, the research area around Data and Information Quality (DIQ) is still a fast growing research area. There are many views and streams in DIQ research, generally aiming at improving the effectiveness of decision making in organizations. Although there are a lot of researches aimed at clarifying the role of BIG data...

IEEE International Congress on Big Data, BigData Congress 2013, June 27 2013-July 2, 2013

Big Data: Understanding Big Data

Steve Jobs, one of the greatest visionaries of our time was quoted in 1996 saying “a lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them”[38] indicating he advocated products to be developed based on human intuition rather than research. With the advancements of mobile devices, social networks and the Internet of Things (IoT) enormous amounts of complex data, both structure...

Networks & Big Data Networks & Big Data

Once a year, the NWO cluster Stochastics – Theoretical and Applied Research (STAR) organises a STAR Outreach Day, a one-day event around a theme that is of a broad interest to the stochastics community in the Netherlands. The last Outreach Day took place at Eurandom on 12 December 2014. The theme of the day was ‘Networks & Big Data’. The topic is very timely. The Vision document 2025 of the Pla...