Computer Science & InformaticsDigital Ethnography, & Digital Humanities

1st Big Data EventKansas State University

Monday 28 April 2014

William H. Hsu (Computing & Information Sciences)

Michael Wesch (Sociology, Anthropology, & Social Work)

Mark Crosby (English)

Hsu: Laboratory for Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD Lab)

Wesch: Digital Ethnography @ Anthropology

Crosby: Digital Humanities

This talk is: http://bit.ly/kstate-BigData-S2014-02

Handout: K-State Big Data

For more info: @kstate_bigdata (Twitter), kstatebigdata@gmail.com

Resources: http://bit.ly/kstate-BigData

Big Data course: CIS 490/690/890, fall 2014

Big Data at K-State: Research Initiativesin STEM, Social Informatics, & Digital Humanities

Big Data SummitSpring, 2014

Computer Science & InformaticsDigital Ethnography, & Digital Humanities

1st Big Data EventKansas State University

Monday 28 April 2014

Big Data isAlready Here!

Where is “Here” and Since When?

K-State: Local Resources

Twitter: @kstate_bigdata

Facebook, LinkedIn

Everywhere (Ubiquitous Data, Computing)

Aspects: Practice, Applications, Research, Education

Methods: Visualization, Analytics, Data Mining, etc.

Informatics as Applied Computing: Building Blocks

Systems: Info Technology – Hardware & Software

Data, Information, & Knowledge Management

Analytics

Computer Science & InformaticsDigital Ethnography, & Digital Humanities

1st Big Data EventKansas State University

Monday 28 April 2014

Big Data isUbiquitous & Interdisciplinary

Digital Arts

http://bit.ly/digitalarts-tutorials

Computational Medicine, Heath, & Biology

(Bioinformatics & Medical/Health Informatics)

http://portal.ncibi.org/gateway/

Computational Law

http://bit.ly/complaw-citation-net

Citation Network of

U.S. Supreme Court Decisions

(Bommarito et al., 2010)

Computer Science & InformaticsDigital Ethnography, & Digital Humanities

1st Big Data EventKansas State University

Monday 28 April 2014

http://bit.ly/infovis-myths-ghostmap

See also: Johnson, S. (2006). The Ghost Map.

2014 Kansas State Book Network (KSBN) Common Reader

Some Techniques & Findings Have been Around A long Time…

Snow, J. (1854)

Computer Science & InformaticsDigital Ethnography, & Digital Humanities

1st Big Data EventKansas State University

Monday 28 April 2014

Some Are New…

Geoinformatics & Opinion Mining

Murphy, Hsu, Elshamy, Kallumadi, & Volkova (2014)

Computer Science & InformaticsDigital Ethnography, & Digital Humanities

1st Big Data EventKansas State University

Monday 28 April 2014

Some Are Emergent from Big Data(e.g., Big Social Data)

http://bit.ly/datamining-target-teenpreg, http://bit.ly/datamining-ethics-teenpreg

“How Target Figured Out A Teen Girl Was Pregnant Before Her Father Did” (Hill, 2012)

See also: http://bit.ly/seeing-state – Seeing Like a State (Scott, 1999)