Robin Williams gave the opening keynote at the 3rd Innovation in Information Infrastructures (III) Workshop (13th – 16th October 2014) hosted by the  University of Oslo, Department of Informatics. http://www.mn.uio.no/ifi/english/research/news-and-events/events/conferences-and-seminars/iiios2014/ The  previous III workshop at the University of Edinburgh (9-11 October 2012) http://www.stis.ed.ac.uk/issti/events/events/innovation_in_information_infrastructures had provided the basis for a recently published special edition of the   …Continue Reading

In the summer of 2014 Gartner released its latest Hype Cycle for Emerging Technology. Now Big Data has moved away from the peak of expectation and it is set to become a productive reality. One example of it starting to get tangible is Scottish Government that in June 2014 published its Data Vision for Scotland.   …Continue Reading

I am thinking about my ten minute introduction for next week’s Producing Data event. I want to talk about data visualisation as a profession and its position in the data supply chain. I am reminiscent as I write of Micheal Pryke’s very interesting paper on the “money eye” when he says ““Numbers are not everything”. Interestingly,  Pryke’s is one   …Continue Reading

Contemporary interest in big data, data science and large-scale digital research presents an opportunity for researchers and practitioners alike.  National and global strategy on gearing up for the challenges of big data means there has never been a better time for professional development. Join us. “Information is the oil of the 21st century, and analytics is the combustion   …Continue Reading