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Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford

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Large Scale Data Mining for Political and Sociological Information (Intelligent Systems Laboratory, Bristol)

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Programme 2012

TRACK A: POLITICS
TRACK B: POLICY
TRACK C: DATA & METHODS
Poster Session
Plenary Panel: Big Data: Potential and Perils for Public Policy

Special Issue: Big Data

Selected papers from this conference were published in a special issue on the potentials and challenges of big data (Policy and Internet, June 2013, vol. 5, iss. 2). Read the issue editorial: Addressing the policy challenges and opportunities of “Big data” by Helen Margetts and David Sutcliffe.

Paper prize

The winners of the “Best Paper” prize (sponsored by the Policy and Internet journal) were Thomas Chadefaux (ETH Zurich) for his paper: Early Warning Signals for War in the News, and Jonathan Bright (EUI) for: The Dynamics of Parliamentary Discourse in the UK: 1936-2011.

Poster prize

The Google-sponsored “Best Poster” prize winners were Shawn Walker (Univ. Washington; with Joe Eckert, Jeff Hemsley, Robert Mason, and Karine Nahon): SoMe Tools for Social Media Research, and Giovanni Grasso (Univ. Oxford; with Tim Furche, Georg Gottlob, and Christian Schallhart): OXPath: Everyone can Automate the Web!

Travel Bursaries

We are grateful to American Public University (APU) and Tableau Software for funding student travel bursaries.

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Policy and Internet

Policy and Internet Journal

This is a conference of the Oxford Internet Institute and the journal Policy and Internet. Policy and Internet calls for papers on the implications of the Internet for public policy.

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