Big data

Analysing graduate earnings using anonymous administrative data can show how earnings vary for graduates and indicate which skills are in short...

Anna Vignoles (Faculty of Education), together with colleagues at the Institute for Fiscal Studies and Harvard University, authors a study that finds...

National institute for the development and use of advanced mathematics, computer science, algorithms and ‘Big Data’ has announced its first director...

People talk about ‘data being the new oil’, a natural resource that companies need to exploit and refine. But is this really true or are we in the...

Researchers are using social media data to build a picture of the personalities of millions, changing core ideas of how psychological profiling works...

The ‘world’s largest IT project’ — a system with the power of one hundred million home computers — may help to unravel many of the mysteries of our...

Millions of English language tests are taken each year by non-native English speakers. Researchers at Cambridge’s ALTA Institute are building ‘...

Researchers have developed a new technique that trawls the enormous amounts of public procurement data now available across the EU to highlight...